Simples @Fairygirl. I plant lots of lovely perennials that will enjoy full sun and not need staking and grow them in big clumps and swathes that can intermingle. Maybe one or two carefully chosen grasses as fillers but not the other way round.
First tho I need to carry on planting more trees and shrubs in that new bed and then move in some perennials that have gone berserk in the rose beds. There are some helenium things that grew to 2 metres, not the 1 advertised and some Michaelmas daisies that have grown to double the expected height. They can do what they like in the new bed and not swamp my roses.
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'd agree that's a better way of approaching it @Obelixx. I think you need a lot of room to do those prairie gardens properly, and they must look bare for large parts of the year, so you wouldn't want it to be an area you can see from the house all the time. I wouldn't anyway.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
OH has just rung to say he has found the signet ring with a diamond it it that I bought him. A few years ago we bought each other a ring, mine is a sapphire and diamond eternity ring, as we used our previous wedding rings at our blessing so we hadn't actually bought rings. We had loved our spouses who died so kept wearing the rings.
OH lost his signet ring when we were at the old cottage and he said he hoped it would turn up in the move to the new Cottage. It didn't. He has just been to Tesco to buy some new socks and then sorted out his sock drawer and there it was!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good to hear from @Steve the Gardening Vet. @D0rdogne_Damsel, the sweet pea man was David K, I heard from him during the last lockdown. SG Lily posts on the Resurrected thread. Runnybeak made me laugh but she has left as have others that I liked. Nothing stays the same for ever.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I have to admit I have never heard of John Sessions. Looked him up and he was on TV a lot in the 80s and 90s when we moved to France and didn't have English TV.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon all, I remember the name John Sessions but I can't picture his face. I'll google him later. I've been in the garden for most of the day. The back lawn has been edged, four trugs of weeds removed, lawn raked over and the wooden garden chairs put away for the winter. Shattered but glad that I've got so much done. Did quite a bit of knitting yesterday and hands are a bit achy today. Just have the sleeves to do on Gabriel's jumper and then I think I'll start a cross stitch.
Quite a few posters have disappeared from threads but some of them might just be popping in occasionally and not posting. I hope @Chicky comes back.
I remember John Sessions from "Whose Line Is It Anyway", which seems a bit dated now. At the time I think it was viewed as cutting edge comedy. He also made appearances on QI, where he seemed to know an awful lot of obscure facts that often bore little relevance to the answer being sought We seem to be having a spate of celebrity deaths at the moment. What a crap year!
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First tho I need to carry on planting more trees and shrubs in that new bed and then move in some perennials that have gone berserk in the rose beds. There are some helenium things that grew to 2 metres, not the 1 advertised and some Michaelmas daisies that have grown to double the expected height. They can do what they like in the new bed and not swamp my roses.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
OH lost his signet ring when we were at the old cottage and he said he hoped it would turn up in the move to the new Cottage. It didn't. He has just been to Tesco to buy some new socks and then sorted out his sock drawer and there it was!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
RIP John Sessions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54797823
Such a very funny, hugely intelligent man ............ he will be so badly missed 😢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.