What plant to plant advice please?

[miss_corerupted]

Hi all,
Hope you can help me please. Our bathroom is about a metre below ground level (everyroom in the house are on diff levels). Anyway the ground has been dug away from it and a gully put in to help stop damp. So atm it is just brown earth. The corner is quite dark i am hoping to plant some plants there to help with water runoff and erosion.

Does anyone have any ideas what will grow there?? the only thing i can think of is moss lol

thanks for your help

Emma

[Flummery]

Ferns would like it. You can often get a selection at garden centres, some very attractive.

[JennieAtkinson]

Hostas are another choice for dark damp areas ......... and they go well with ferns

[miss_corerupted]

thank you

just going off to goggle hosta lol never heard of it

[Flummery]

Oh they are lovely - often variegated and have beautiful blue or white flowers on tall stems. On the downside - the slugs and snails love them!

[JennieAtkinson]

I know Flum, but I plant them in pots and that seems to help. Even in a border I plant in a terracotta pot and sink it into the ground. I have quite alot of them here, both in pots around the back of the greenhouse (which faces on to the road) or in the shady bits of the border. Even places in full sun - but then my full sun is not the same as the south of England.

[miss_corerupted]

prob won't get the hostas, they are lovely i really like them, but we have hundreds of snails and slugs here and don't think i'll be able to get down the slope soon. i'm pregnant and feel like a whale atm lol.

someone else suggested lungwort, impatiens? and lamiums??
i'm currently looking at ferns on ebay didn't realise there was so many diff ones

thanks

[Flummery]

The Victorians had ferneries - just full of them! Impatiens wouldn't stand the winter. Lungwort is nice - I have different types, white and the usual blue/pink flowers. Lamium might manage those conditions too and you would get white or pink flowers - give them a whirl.

Congrats on forthcoming babe BTW. Whaleness will soon disappear.

[miss_corerupted]

thank you. i hope so, not due till dec and i already got stuck inbetween the porch and front door this morning as the door opens inwards, panicked at bit tbh