@holt120 - as you are fairly new here, I think it would help if you reminded us that you are posting from and gardening in Texas - very different climate and soil conditions from those experienced in the UK where this forum is based and even from those few of us who post from the EU or Oz.
The soil around our pond is a mix of volcanic schist with bands of clay or sand. It is not amenable to spades so having a hard time turning some of it into a bog garden for my gunnera but we will get there and a new willow with twisted foliage rather than just twisted stems.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
He/she has another thread which mentions Texas. I checked after seeing which trees were planted in the boggy area as they didn't seem like normal British options.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I know Im from texas but I want to grow a garden that is the romantic english garden. I have even bought tickets to the chelsea flower show. However some of the english plants dont work as well here as I am learning but most do. I just planted two David Austin roses that I hope will do well here. I just pulled up an older knockout rose that had rosettes disease. The knockout rose is a hybrid that seems to be the most susceptible to rosettes. I hope you dont have it in the u.k. because We dont have a cure other than to pull it up and burn it.
The thing is, your climate is so very different from that of the UK in terms of temperature range and rainfall so what someone in Lancashire or Devon could grow well wouldn't stand a chance with you.
Most "English" plants are in fact imports introduced by plant collectors so I suggest you get acquainted with the RHS website which has a plant database that includes info on temperature ranges and drainage. There is also a fashion here for prairie planting which uses a mix of ornamental grasses and perennials which are, in fact, native to the USA - echinacea, rudbeckia, monarda and so on - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=1025 tho they won't help with your boggy bits.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We don't have rosette disease YET in the UK, @holt120 - thankfully. But I read that the mite which carries it has spread recently to India... it looks a devastating disease...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
started building my creek or rill useing native rocks The pump i have on it right now is putting out 55 gallons a minute. Would it look better to put a bigger pump on it? I have one that does about double that. Maybe add it on?
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The soil around our pond is a mix of volcanic schist with bands of clay or sand. It is not amenable to spades so having a hard time turning some of it into a bog garden for my gunnera but we will get there and a new willow with twisted foliage rather than just twisted stems.
Most "English" plants are in fact imports introduced by plant collectors so I suggest you get acquainted with the RHS website which has a plant database that includes info on temperature ranges and drainage. There is also a fashion here for prairie planting which uses a mix of ornamental grasses and perennials which are, in fact, native to the USA - echinacea, rudbeckia, monarda and so on - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=1025
tho they won't help with your boggy bits.