I've got last year's Echinacea pallida seedlings planted, I am really hoping they flower. There are about ten or more of them planted in a group so I hope they do, or there's going to be a large gap in my planting..
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
My neighbour let me dig up a Gunnera from his garden last weekend. It's a rhizome about 16" X 16" and although it was unprotected and hut but the February freeze I think it will be ok. Wanted one for ages and thus is much bigger than I'd have had otherwise. It's in a low damp spit at the bottom of the garden near a pond in dappled shade. I'm covering it at night as it's still cold at night! Fingers crossed........
This is our third year here. Year one was tidying up a garden that had been unloved and left to grow unchecked for many years. Year two was building a pond and planting it up for a fine summer display. This year has been digging out around 10 tonnes of soil, concrete and stone ready for a complete re-landscaping to feature a large patio, pergola, greenhouse and dry stone wall pond and waterfall.
All being well, we're two months away from completion!
I have just got some six foot metal screens I am putting in this year to create a bit more privacy in my very overlooked garden. I like the rust very much, but it would seem to be a sail for the wind, potentially. I'm really hoping it will work well and add a new element to the garden. No idea how to anchor it well.
I’m exited about having the possibility of family and friends out in the garden with us, again, after so long.
On a plant level, we have just had a new extension and patio built, so there are new beds and ends of border that are currently being created by OH, into which I plan to put a new Rosa mutabilis, amongst other things...very excited about that one, as it looks like a fascinating rose.
There is also a new raised veg bed going onto the patio that my 13 year old can’t wait to get planted up. She was in gardening club at her secondary school until it all stopped in March last year and although she’s not so bothered about flowers, she does love growing and eating veg.
Also hope to grow some Cucino cucumbers, recommended by somebody on here, as he had such a bumper crop with his plants.
I have a new house and a new garden. The garden is a blank canvas. I am looking forward to my new roses flowering, they are mostly old varieties, very scented, repeat flowering.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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This is our third year here. Year one was tidying up a garden that had been unloved and left to grow unchecked for many years. Year two was building a pond and planting it up for a fine summer display. This year has been digging out around 10 tonnes of soil, concrete and stone ready for a complete re-landscaping to feature a large patio, pergola, greenhouse and dry stone wall pond and waterfall.
All being well, we're two months away from completion!
Will fill in the gaps with cosmos which I haven’t grown before.
On a plant level, we have just had a new extension and patio built, so there are new beds and ends of border that are currently being created by OH, into which I plan to put a new Rosa mutabilis, amongst other things...very excited about that one, as it looks like a fascinating rose.
There is also a new raised veg bed going onto the patio that my 13 year old can’t wait to get planted up. She was in gardening club at her secondary school until it all stopped in March last year and although she’s not so bothered about flowers, she does love growing and eating veg.
Also hope to grow some Cucino cucumbers, recommended by somebody on here, as he had such a bumper crop with his plants.