Good morning hoping everyone a happy new year and a much better one than in 2020 without the fear of covid! I have a new project I am starting for 2021 and was wondering what your ideas would be for this area. I am removing the brambles and the dead trees. I have also brought irrigation to the area using drip irrigation. Would you build raised beds here? Leave it as just a woodland? Grow grass? I would like to add more beds?
I go with woodland with added planting , drifts of woodland / shade tolerant plants like ferns - Brunnera - primula etc add in 1000s of bulbs and dot the odd shrub in like a rhododendron or not bother with shrubs at all . Try and keep it natural, raised beds and straight lines I don't think would suit the very nice surrounding area.
I would keep it as woodland … I would leave some dead/dying trees standing for woodpeckers and other hole-nesting birds, and I would fell some of the dead trees and build log piles to provide shelter and a food source for small mammals, reptiles and invertebrates, and for fungi and lichens to grow on.
I would then plant some areas with an under-storey of native shrubs that will thrive in woodland and prove nesting sites for small birds. Other areas I would develop as woodland ‘glades’ with short grass and native woodland flowers.
You are so fortunate to have a beautiful natural area … I wouldn’t build formal beds as if it was suburbia … just enhance what you have, allowing it all to become wilder the further you get from the house.
It’ll be a picture 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had no idea you could grow such a wide variety of plants in Texas
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Or keep grass it looks nice now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.