I think the videos are useful for ideas if you have a load of builders' sand and don't know what to do with it - making walls and banks and wildlife areas. Lots of us grow with poor soils and think we need to add a load of fertility. It's good to know that there other options than working with top soil. The vids show that loads of plants will love sand, chalk, glass, concrete and you can use them to build structures.
For those (above) who see sand as a curse - there are other perspectives. I would personally be happy with John Little's gardens - it's huge diversity of planting and life.
Make a pond and use it under the liner! Incidentally, we used to dig food scraps (only veg) a couple of weeks old straight into the soil (well buried!) in heavy clay, it worked a treat! We had ferns growing happily in that patch a few months later.
Fascinating videos, thank you. I wouldn't mind a sandy area ... what plants could I put it in? Must be for pollinators/wildlife ... a condition of inclusion in my garden!
what plants could I put it in? Must be for pollinators/wildlife ... a condition of inclusion in my garden
Plants that like very poor soil and sandy/chalky conditions. There are a lot of wild flowers that find this substrate perfect and don't want top soil. Any thing that seeds into gravel or paving would be fine. In my sandy bed planted for pollinators I have sedum, verbena bon, californian poppies, jupiters beard, erigeron, ox eye daises, bushy salvia, campion, yarrow, vetch, plantain, marjoram. Thyme would be very happy.
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Incidentally, we used to dig food scraps (only veg) a couple of weeks old straight into the soil (well buried!) in heavy clay, it worked a treat! We had ferns growing happily in that patch a few months later.
Plants that like very poor soil and sandy/chalky conditions. There are a lot of wild flowers that find this substrate perfect and don't want top soil. Any thing that seeds into gravel or paving would be fine. In my sandy bed planted for pollinators I have sedum, verbena bon, californian poppies, jupiters beard, erigeron, ox eye daises, bushy salvia, campion, yarrow, vetch, plantain, marjoram. Thyme would be very happy.
You can wildflower seed mixes for sand.
https://www.meadowmania.co.uk/wildflower-seed-for-sandy-soils.htm
https://britishwildflowermeadowseeds.co.uk/products/sandy-soil-meadow-seed-mix
Rather thrillingly, I see John Little (above) is opening is garden for the NGS in July. I would love to go.
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/34797