What are you digging out?

[Ladygardener]

Yesterday I had help removing a Jasmine that never really did anything and it's roots went half way around the garden .
It flowered yes, but I could hardly smell anything from the tiny flowers and it had pretty much taken over the rails at the bottom of the garden without adding any kind of focal point. With it removed I should be able to see my lovely yellow berried Pyricantha and will plant 2 lovely Rosa Rugosa there instead. I'll have blooms, hips and delicious scent if they do well for me.

It got me thinking, what have other folk dug out this year, or is anyone thinking of digging out anything over the winter months?

[Tig]

I'm quite ruthless these days, not having much space left I have to be. I loved the scent of the lonicera halliana but it clothed the contorted hazel a bit too well and was evergreen in a mild winter, which is when you want to see the hazel, so that has been dug up this year. I've also cleared several clumps of the stipa tenuissima out of the large island bed so that I could add more colour, and tulips/narcissus. An echinops blue globe had formed too big a clump down the bottom end so that too got dug out, split & just a smaller piece replanted.

Next year I need to tackle the big miscanthus, and decide if I'm leaving the stipa gigantea where it is.

[Geranium]

We have just removed a huge, elderly Escallonia. It has left an enormous space, and I have already bought a Mahonia 'Soft Caress' and a Garrya elliptica to go in, but the weather has stopped me planting them. There will be space for other things, but it's facing north so I might be a bit limited in what will thrive there.

[Jasmine]

I took out several Stipa Gigantica at the beginning of autumn - I had planted too many too close together. I also dug up, split up and replanted 2 smaller bits of the Shasta Crazy Daisy - it was taking over. The extra bits can go on my plant stall in the summer.
I dug out Rosa Burgundy Ice too but I will replace it at some point. The plant was dead on one side and a bit of a mess.

[Ladygardener]

I wonder what happened to your Rose to cause it to die on one side Jasmine. The Crazy Daisy I planted this year has settled in very well and is growing in an area below the bird table that I find it hard to get other things to grow in.

Did you get your planting done yet Geranium.

Tig, my Echinops is behaving itself at the moment. Shame about your Lonicers but at least you'll see your Hazel now.

[Jasmine]

It got completely swamped by Stipas I think Ladygardener, it barely saw any sun/daylight/what have you this summer csad

[Ladygardener]

Ah right Jasmine. Overcrowding is a problem I have to try very hard to keep on top of in my small garden. I'm not always successful 'tho and some things just are'nt shown off to their best advantage.

[Geranium]

No, Ladygardener, I was out meeting Louisa all morning and after I'd walked the dog after lunch there wasn't enough light left. It was really strange - the light went at around 3.30. I do hate these dark evenings.

[Jasmine]

3 weeks to the shortest day!

[Ladygardener]

Jasmine, Something to look forward to at least. Geranium, it was dark all day here yesterday. Very gloomy. csad

[Geranium]

I had a brainwave yesterday - I'd like more Hellebores, and my ex-Escallonia space would be ideal!  I think they'll be in the GCs very soon....I feel a trip down into Devon coming on... cwink

[Ladygardener]

I think I've somehow lost the Hellebore I got last year. There's no sign of it at all and the area has been dug up a couple of times this year.