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My project for the next year.

KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
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One side of our garden is in shade most of the day and the other in full sun.  Nothing, including supposed shade loving plants grows well in the shaded part, with the exceptions of bindweed.  We've made the decision to grass the shade border and widen the sunny one to make the best of a bad job.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Good project,  although I prefer my shady border to the sunny ones.
    I’m thinking of grassing over a couple of borders,  all getting too much now and OH sees to the grass. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Lyn said:
    Good project,  although I prefer my shady border to the sunny ones.
    I’m thinking of grassing over a couple of borders,  all getting too much now and OH sees to the grass. 

    If anything grew there I would keep them, but I've battled for about 10 years now without success.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @KT53 best gone then,  no point in battling with anything, 
    In the early Spring I collected up all my hellebores and put them together in the shady bed.  There’s a big Bergenia in the corner and a few Polemonium,  Astranta and primroses doing well. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @Lyn, it's quite strange really, because further up the garden on the same border, in an area which actually gets very little sun at all, I can grow hostas, astrantia, various ferns, geraniums etc very successfully.  It's an area about 40 feet long where nothing other than weeds is ever successful.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Sounds like it’s just poor ground,  wild flowers thrive on poor soil.  Maybe you could dig it over and pile a load of stuff on it, and compost or you can be like me and say ‘ I’ve had enough grass it over’.
    Make sure you get a grass that will thrive in shade. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ERICS MUMERICS MUM Posts: 627
    I’ve started something similar.  I’ve got small areas within larger beds in my front and back gardens where old shrubs and perennials have died over the past year.  I’m slowly digging the patches over, ready to put down weed membrane and cover with gravel.  I’ve always enjoyed growing things in pots so I will group them on these gravel patches.

    i’m only 67 but I’m planning an easier garden for the future !
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Wish I’d done that then as well,  I was still digging out borders then,   trouble was,  I was very fit then and never thought I’d get tired.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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