We have around 60 households in our local garden group over four streets. Most are new growers. This young neighbour is living in a rented flat and started planting up her little south facing garden in March. She made planters and shelving out of donated palettes and filled them with donated soil and donated plants from surrounding gardens. She has a lot of cuttings and seedlings on the go (back shelf). The climbers are in the ground, the vine wires are going up! She is so enthused that she has started a practical RHS course at Capel Manor. Very exciting. Here are some before and afters. (Shared with her permission).
Thank you @Yessica. It's nice to see neighbours feeling ever happier to chat in the street - the pavement growing sites gives a point of easy conversation and shared smiles.
This year's sedum cuttings are just coming into bloom. None of the mushroom houses have been nicked, which is a relief.
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And here is some of the August harvest from new growers in our four road garden group: Cucamelon, borlotti beans, chillies and kitchen-grown cucumbers happily clambering over a clothes horse.
Is that a geranium in the background of the top picture? I'm a complete novice gardener this year and in terms of geraniums, only knew pelargoniums, which I'm not a fan of. Then I was having a look in a friend's garden and spotted a beautiful plant, asked what it was, and she told me a wild geranium she'd rehomed from an alleyway! I have since read up about hardy geraniums - they are so beautiful! I've bought a packet of mixed hardy geranium seeds for next year and I'm excited to see what will emerge from my "lucky dip".
@YessicaHaircut Yes, it's a geranium Rozanne. In spite of all the other, wilder, planting for pollinators, it's Rozanne that is always covered with insects on that plot. That bed is very poor, sandy soil, so the plants don't go crazy, but gently wind through other plants,. I trim it back fairly often through the season. When I planted them last year in the bed I imagined that Rozanne would be too thuggish and large for the bed, but in fact it's been fine with trimming. The colour theme for the plot if broadly purple and white. Have plants with a long a flowering season as possible.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is that a geranium in the background of the top picture? I'm a complete novice gardener this year and in terms of geraniums, only knew pelargoniums, which I'm not a fan of. Then I was having a look in a friend's garden and spotted a beautiful plant, asked what it was, and she told me a wild geranium she'd rehomed from an alleyway! I have since read up about hardy geraniums - they are so beautiful! I've bought a packet of mixed hardy geranium seeds for next year and I'm excited to see what will emerge from my "lucky dip".