@GardenerSuze are you, yourself, personally doing the digging?!?!?! If so hat's off to you. My little pasghetti arms can't cope. I have a 'nasty little triangle' (@hostafan1) to get rid of and even the thought makes me come aver all feeble! o____, (←that's me, fainted!).
Earlier in this thread @Fairygirl mentioned alpaca poo.
Our friends have 8 alpacas and I've been using the poo in the garden ... it's great stuff, and not really wet/sticky. Alpacas all poo in the one spot, so very easy to collect a couple of bags whenever I pop up to see our mates.
Bee x
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@plant pauper Yes I will be doing the digging for this nursery border so that I can plant all the things from my old garden. This will also be a new border which is why I am taking time at this stage to get it right. I suppose I take it in my stride, no longer working for someone else I can do it at my pace. The hard landscaping I am looking for someone to do this but maybe not until next year. I won't get it done in the winter.
Just one photo today. Still sideways but waiting for another lesson from my daughter.
This is taken from the kitchen patio door. Where the plants are is a second patio door from the lounge. To the left you can just see the 'test pit' soon to be nursery bed which faces west. The whole garden is one lawn and it is South facing.
I am hoping that we will be able to extend the paving at the bottom of the photo to make use of an area for two people to sit on a sunny winters day. It is also important to have a border close to the house. A second seating area will be in a more shady spot not sure where just yet .No table for eating at would much prefer more plants[not that I am going to eat them instead].
More photos to follow. No more progress with the nursery bed at present as it is too wet. However I have managed to add some manure and the rain has helped to wash it into the soil.
Lots of ideas some on paper but all subject to a total change of plan early days. There will be another property built at the bottom of the garden the footings are there this will also affect light levels which will mean planting will be subject to change.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Looks like you’ve already got a perfect lawn @GardenerSuze! Nice brick work and fence too which will provide an excellent backdrop for your planting. Good to see that your urn survived the move!
@Plantminded This is the other side of the garden. The wall is the garage. I am going to plant Calamagrostis Carl Foerster all the way down it. Did think about Parthenocissus henryana but it could find it's way across the roof in years to come, if I am not vigilant. . The Urn is known as 'Pat the Pot', two burly removal men just moved it as if it weighed nothing. I had woken up in the night worrying it wouldn't get here in one piece. I think it's new home may be roughly where it is but I do have another thought at the end of a straight path yet to be created.
The lawn is good but the weather has helped,if it stays I am not sure, it is a big area to landscape. However I am one of those gardeners who's lawn shrinks annually to accomodate new plants.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I have been taking a good look at all the plants that moved with me from my previous garden. I made a list of all of them fifty in total. I would have known what they were anyway as they have been favourites for so long but old habits die hard and everything had to be labelled. Many were split from mature plants back in March potted in Sylvagrow which I had never used before. I then potted them on in June again in Sylvagrow they have all survived with only a cutting of Melianthus Major looking unhappy. All these plants are special to me, I have grown Pulmonarias for years then discovered P Diana Clare which is the very best in my opinion and a plant I would not be without.
Other specials for shade are Epimedium Domino, Polystichum setiferum, Polygonatum stenophyllum Maxim and Campanula Chloe. The plan is to plant an Amelanchier at the bottom end of the garden which faces North so I hope together with some hellebores, sweet box and the snowdrops I have in pots this will be a planting scheme for this area.
Something that would be of real interest to me is wooden arches and the pros and cons of what you can grow on them. The previous photo show where they could be positioned leading the eye down the garden to the big pot. It is almost certain that I will have a border the length of the garage wall with a dense planting of Calamagrostisis Karl Foerster all the way down. Any thoughts would be appreciated the garden faces south but there will be another house sideways on at the bottom of the garden.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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Our friends have 8 alpacas and I've been using the poo in the garden ... it's great stuff, and not really wet/sticky.
Alpacas all poo in the one spot, so very easy to collect a couple of bags whenever I pop up to see our mates.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
The hard landscaping I am looking for someone to do this but maybe not until next year.
I won't get it done in the winter.
@Beewitched Very convenient! I love Alpacas.
I ♥ my garden.
This is taken from the kitchen patio door. Where the plants are is a second patio door from the lounge. To the left you can just see the 'test pit' soon to be nursery bed which faces west. The whole garden is one lawn and it is South facing.
I am hoping that we will be able to extend the paving at the bottom of the photo to make use of an area for two people to sit on a sunny winters day. It is also important to have a border close to the house. A second seating area will be in a more shady spot not sure where just yet .No table for eating at would much prefer more plants[not that I am going to eat them instead].
More photos to follow. No more progress with the nursery bed at present as it is too wet. However I have managed to add some manure and the rain has helped to wash it into the soil.
Lots of ideas some on paper but all subject to a total change of plan early days. There will be another property built at the bottom of the garden the footings are there this will also affect light levels which will mean planting will be subject to change.
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The Urn is known as 'Pat the Pot', two burly removal men just moved it as if it weighed nothing. I had woken up in the night worrying it wouldn't get here in one piece. I think it's new home may be roughly where it is but I do have another thought at the end of a straight path yet to be created.
The lawn is good but the weather has helped,if it stays I am not sure, it is a big area to landscape. However I am one of those gardeners who's lawn shrinks annually to accomodate new plants.
Many were split from mature plants back in March potted in Sylvagrow which I had never used before. I then potted them on in June again in Sylvagrow they have all survived with only a cutting of Melianthus Major looking unhappy.
All these plants are special to me, I have grown Pulmonarias for years then discovered P Diana Clare which is the very best in my opinion and a plant I would not be without.
Other specials for shade are Epimedium Domino, Polystichum setiferum, Polygonatum stenophyllum Maxim and Campanula Chloe. The plan is to plant an Amelanchier at the bottom end of the garden which faces North so I hope together with some hellebores, sweet box and the snowdrops I have in pots this will be a planting scheme for this area.
Something that would be of real interest to me is wooden arches and the pros and cons of what you can grow on them. The previous photo show where they could be positioned leading the eye down the garden to the big pot.
It is almost certain that I will have a border the length of the garage wall with a dense planting of Calamagrostisis Karl Foerster all the way down. Any thoughts would be appreciated the garden faces south but there will be another house sideways on at the bottom of the garden.