What incredible gardens, thanks for the link, Dove.
"On a smaller scale" indeed. I quote from the Desert Wash garden description:
"The real work in making a garden such as this starts some one metre below the surface where we break up the sub-soil and incorporate lots of gravel. Then we build layer upon layer of gravel and gravel mixed with soil, the aim being to keep this area very free draining especially during the winter. [...] Some four hundred tonnes of flint of various sizes have been used in the construction "
Papi Jo ... the gardens at The Old Vicarage at East Ruston (local to us here) are indeed incredible ... right on the edge of the North Sea, the substantial shelter belts planted by Alan and Graham some 30 years ago c coupled with the correct preparation of the planting sites, allow the healthy survival of many plants which would be considered tender in other gardens. You may know Alan Gray from his regular contributions to the RHS magazine The Garden.
Do click on the 'New Brochure' tab on their website ... wonderful photographs of the gardens.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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There is a description of the preparatory groundwork done at East Ruston on the link I posted.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dovefromabove : "When I think of a 'dry riverbed garden' I think of something along the lines of the Desert Wash at East Ruston http://www.e-ruston-oldvicaragegardens.co.uk/pages/view/575/desert-wash.htm (although obviously on a smaller scale)."
What incredible gardens, thanks for the link, Dove.
"On a smaller scale" indeed. I quote from the Desert Wash garden description:
"The real work in making a garden such as this starts some one metre below the surface where we break up the sub-soil and incorporate lots of gravel. Then we build layer upon layer of gravel and gravel mixed with soil, the aim being to keep this area very free draining especially during the winter. [...] Some four hundred tonnes of flint of various sizes have been used in the construction "
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Papi Jo ... the gardens at The Old Vicarage at East Ruston (local to us here) are indeed incredible ... right on the edge of the North Sea, the substantial shelter belts planted by Alan and Graham some 30 years ago c coupled with the correct preparation of the planting sites, allow the healthy survival of many plants which would be considered tender in other gardens. You may know Alan Gray from his regular contributions to the RHS magazine The Garden.
Do click on the 'New Brochure' tab on their website ... wonderful photographs of the gardens.
Last edited: 12 October 2017 12:01:53
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is my progress of a Dry riverbed