[TheOnlyGothInTheVillage]

Hi all, have been digging out flower beds and am now looking for lots of really tall pink flowers and plants to grow, i'm on rather wet clay with plenty of stone, the garden faces east and gets quite a lot of sun in the mornings, and i'm trying to hide a large drain cover and the white pluming pipes are on the outside of the house so want to hide them too, the taller the plants the better, am also trying to grow most things from seed cus its cheap and easy to get delivered.....
Any one got any ideas?

Thanks in advance....

[Springlands]

How about pink sweet peas - either annuals or everlasting.

[arugula]

Pink Cosmos.

[mumofstig]

Pink Cosmos.

and lavatera 

[Kleftiwallah]

Rose Bay Willow Herb ! ! !  Just the thing you want.     Cheers,   Tony.

[arugula]

Pink Cosmos.

and lavatera 

Now why didn't I think of that?   

[sunshineband]

Rose Bay Willow Herb ! ! !  Just the thing you want.     Cheers,   Tony.

and it spreads everywhere thanks to those lovely floaty seeds,. so you will need to like it a lot 

foxgloves (also self seed) or roses

[TheOnlyGothInTheVillage]

I'd love some rosebay willow herb, theres some in a field near us and its heading for 6 foot but its behind lots of equily high stingers and blackthorns, i must be able to collect the seeds somehow...

[TheOnlyGothInTheVillage]

Just had a google hunt for rosebay willow seeds, not much about, found a a great little shop sells them for 75p but dosen't say how many you get and their p & p was very high at £4.50, as much as i want them I am not paying over a fiver for a packet of seeds.

[mumofstig]

I should hope not...paying for seeds of Weeds! 

[hamstergbert]

Lavatera Barnsley - tough as old boots, shrubby so will do its bit to hide your drain cover all the year round, plus once established is dead easy to take cuttings from (ie roughly wrench a bit off and stick it in the ground and off it jolly well goes).

For knee level, some geranium (cranesbill, not perlargonium).  Also tough as old boots, perennial, robust).

Ankle level saponaria - nice thick clump, also perennial.

[Yorkie]

Your neighbours won't thank you if you get rosebay ... 

[sunshineband]

Your neighbours won't thank you if you get rosebay ... 

I tried to warn her ............. 

[mumofstig]

and so did I 

[TheOnlyGothInTheVillage]

Think the neighbours will be fine, we've only got them on one side, we have a high fence and their garden is all concrete and gravel.
Mainly looking for plants 5-6 foot in height to cover nasty plastic pipes running half way up the wall behind my flower beds, have tried sweet peas but they've grown up past the support and have now fallen over and look a bit rubbish, think i'll keep trying to encourage the valerian to spread, thats tall and bushy enough to hide the pipes and manhole/drain thing, although that dosen't cover the winter months, i'll have to start looking for pink winter plants now!  lol!

One day it will all be pink in my garden!