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A beautiful year round wilderness that encourages wildlife

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  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Boggy areas.... Gunnera manicata and Tetrapanax rex.  
    The RHS says "Well-drained" for T. 'Rex'???
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited April 2018
    If you have bats, plant some night scented flowers to attract moths - then you'll have happy, fat bats as well as a lovely evening garden. There's a big colony of pipistrelles in our neighbour's loft - they are mesmerising to watch.

    Lucky you living in a quarry. Maybe try meconopsis if you have a sheltered spot where the air stays damp and cool but the ground isn't too wet
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Willows?
  • My parents lived in an old granite quarry - they had a crab apple tree, primroses, an apple orchard,   some bamboo for starters.  It wasn't all damp - in some parts the soil was very shallow and the lawn was forever needing to be watered!
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