I think you need to 'work with what you've got' - anything else will involve huge expense and drainage etc. You'll probably have to do a bit of drainage too - I think you need to take advice from the local experts before you do anything too drastic.
It does sound an amazing site full of potential - and what wonderful plants you'll be able to grow there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If it's wet on that slope then you must have rock close to the surfsce in a lot of the garden. The test hole isn't holding stagnent water i'd say but rather the surrounding area is draining quickly into the hole a d slowly getting away. Terracing is probably out for most of the garden because of the expence(Lotto winners excepted). You could put in a terrace up near the house. The extra soil needed to level the terrace would expose the stone under and this could become a rockery without having to acquire a pile of stones. If it's peat you have then I believe Alpines should thrive there.
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I think you need to 'work with what you've got' - anything else will involve huge expense and drainage etc. You'll probably have to do a bit of drainage too - I think you need to take advice from the local experts before you do anything too drastic.
It does sound an amazing site full of potential - and what wonderful plants you'll be able to grow there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If it's wet on that slope then you must have rock close to the surfsce in a lot of the garden. The test hole isn't holding stagnent water i'd say but rather the surrounding area is draining quickly into the hole a d slowly getting away. Terracing is probably out for most of the garden because of the expence(Lotto winners excepted). You could put in a terrace up near the house. The extra soil needed to level the terrace would expose the stone under and this could become a rockery without having to acquire a pile of stones. If it's peat you have then I believe Alpines should thrive there.