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Moved into 6 year old house looking for advice please
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Hi I am new to the group and gardening
We have just moved into a house that is 6 years old and the garden is very sparse, with little shelter, West facing and at the end of the garden it has a planted area with a number of Photinia Red Robins against a fence which have dropped a lot of leaves over the winter, is there anything we can do to revive them? When we viewed the house last October they looked much fuller and healthier.
There is a large drainage easement area right across the most of the grassed area so I know we are restricted wiry what we can do with it.
From what neighbours have said it's a clay soil, the previous owners have laid membrane over the soil and then put gravel over the top of the membrane where the photinias area planted - I am not sure if this is a good or bad idea for the plants.
Any advice would be amazing! (Photos below)
We have just moved into a house that is 6 years old and the garden is very sparse, with little shelter, West facing and at the end of the garden it has a planted area with a number of Photinia Red Robins against a fence which have dropped a lot of leaves over the winter, is there anything we can do to revive them? When we viewed the house last October they looked much fuller and healthier.
There is a large drainage easement area right across the most of the grassed area so I know we are restricted wiry what we can do with it.
From what neighbours have said it's a clay soil, the previous owners have laid membrane over the soil and then put gravel over the top of the membrane where the photinias area planted - I am not sure if this is a good or bad idea for the plants.
Any advice would be amazing! (Photos below)
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The photinia will perk up as the weather improves I'm sure.
Give them a feed with Fish , Blood and Bone in a few weeks time .
If it were my garden, I'd remove it.
The membrane and gravel is to suppress weeds. It would probably be a big job to remove it all. I think plant food would percolate down with watering/rain. Best to avoid fish/blood/bonemeal type ones so that the cats aren't attracted to it!
There's lots of space between plants so I don't think it'd hard to remove the membrane.
IMHO well worth the effort.
Your garden, your choice.