garden
A week or two ago I took compassion on my front garden and give it some love . I widened a rather pathetic margin that is immediately in front of the bay window , and dug up nearly all the industrial plant / weeds , leaving just the dwarf magnolia , which I pruned , and a mates of straggly lilac-colored plants that I subsequently moved .
I ’ve designate this border as Border 7 , Borders 1 to 6 being in the back garden . There is range for a Border 8 and 9 in the front , but that ’s a line for another sentence . Border 8 in finical is a bindweed incubus , not depend forrad to that at all . As it is , the dreaded weed will encroach pretty tight on the newly dug Border 7 . never-ending vigilence required .
Anyhow , I let out it to about 5 feet , sacrificing some unlovely , weedy lawn . I dug it all over , remove weeds in the process , then mulched it to a deepness of a few column inch with spent mushroom cloud compost . The border is now about 6′ deep by 10′ astray .
I have not made a border plan for this border . I ’m fundamentally wing it , somewhat based on the plantingideasfrom the back garden , and even more so based on what plants I have leave over .
The front of the home gets the sun in the afternoon , from about 2 Prime Minister on , so partial shade on average , although in the summer it is a Lord’s Day trap well into the eve .
Leftovers – or some of them.
I had a flock of plants leave from my phrenetic propagating earlier in the year , so a few sq metres of new border space is a good chance to find a home for them .
start from the correct hand side as you calculate at the house , the far end of the photo , I have moved the two stray lavender plants and tot up 6 or 7 more that I had criticize around . These should form a low lavender hedge , nestling in under the magnolia .
Next are three nicotiana sylvestris at the back , some penstemon husker , 3 potentilla ‘ monarchs velvet ’ .
Leftovers – or some of them.
Moving left , I have planted some geum ‘ Mrs J Bradshaw ’ at the back , then a group of Dahlia pinnata ‘ bishops children ’ , some slightly dog - earred monarda that should bulk up a bit , then some bare antirhinum at the front .
propel further left I have some pheasant tail grass , three glob from a sectionalization , then a group of crocosmia Lucifer , then a grouping of berkhaya species at the front .
The net group of plants on the left has honesty at the back , then a good clump of astilbe , some aquilege ‘ greenapples ’ then some alchemilla molis .
I used up most of my remaining genus Dianthus ‘ lustre ’ for the front of the border . I ’ve found that they fill out the distance quite tight .
In total I planted out 108 plants into this boundary line , it was a red-hot good afternoon ’s work ! nigh all of these plants were grown from seed , some are division and just a couple are plant life fair or pity work bench purchases .
I ’m desire to get some color out of these plants this yr but even more so next class . I suspect the overall issue will be colourful , if not exactly color co - ordinated . Either style it will make a pleasant modification from quite a scrappy , unloved , badly conditioned border and should make a somewhat more attractive welcome to our front threshold .
Potty quantity of pots
Borders 8 and 9 next ! Although , I ’m have dispirited on plants . I need some cutting to rout !
I ’ll be back with an update once these plant have grown on and established , hopefully with some coloration .
