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Plants for shading water trough & can trough be used as wildlife water area?
LindzH
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Any help or advise please. I saved the water trough from my partners Dad's house which had to be sold thought be good as water collection. I'm slowly working through the overwhelming quarry garden and hoping this will be a quick fix.
Wondering what options there are for planting in front to keep it cool, as it's in full sun/south facing, I would like to be able to see a up the garden a little and have a veg patch behind so don't want to block too much, therefore nothing too tall. The pots are there for now, as are the cobble stones.
Hopefully the red hot poker should help a little (I'm hoping to split it this year too) but looking for something to blend in. As there's viburum tree, forget-me-not, primrose, bluebell, osteopermum and I think a cerastium are in the bed. The soil is generally good, compared to the rest of the garden which is clay with bracken or green alkanet, as it's had plants in for the last 10 years.
Also has anyone made a water trough/container like this into both a water source for the garden and for wildlife so a pond. Or any opinions on if this can be done?
I thought stacking rocks to top to create a shallow section and building up soil on the right to allow nature access in and out? Would a water treatment be needed if I just used to water the garden (inc. vegetables)
Any help, idea and thoughts be really appreciated.
Wondering what options there are for planting in front to keep it cool, as it's in full sun/south facing, I would like to be able to see a up the garden a little and have a veg patch behind so don't want to block too much, therefore nothing too tall. The pots are there for now, as are the cobble stones.
Hopefully the red hot poker should help a little (I'm hoping to split it this year too) but looking for something to blend in. As there's viburum tree, forget-me-not, primrose, bluebell, osteopermum and I think a cerastium are in the bed. The soil is generally good, compared to the rest of the garden which is clay with bracken or green alkanet, as it's had plants in for the last 10 years.
Also has anyone made a water trough/container like this into both a water source for the garden and for wildlife so a pond. Or any opinions on if this can be done?
I thought stacking rocks to top to create a shallow section and building up soil on the right to allow nature access in and out? Would a water treatment be needed if I just used to water the garden (inc. vegetables)
Any help, idea and thoughts be really appreciated.
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If you can dig it into the ground so you can provide rocks etc for access then it would make a decent wildlife pond (and reduce the need for shading - although you could simply move it if that was a concern). But it is so well suited to being used for dunking, and would still be an attractive feature (just watch out for the mozzies!) No need for any water treatment for watering veggies.
If yours was sunk a little then any soil bank would be wouldn't need to be so high.
Added a mini wildlife area with water sink further up the garden so they have somewhere. I spotted my lizard friends having a drink and the damson flies.
Thanks all
What did you do with all the rocks?