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Dig up and make new
Verdun
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Often I have need......or an excuse?.....to replant a part of my garden. Maybe a shrub has died or has served its purpose and it's removal creates a brand new area to plan, design and plant up. Last year it was a combination of shrub and lawn removal. It was exciting to do and has proved quite successful and rewarding. So, when a conifer, shrub, etc no longer performs well I am quite brutal and keen to seize the opportunity. Who else is planning this soon?
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I'm always at it Verdun. Very satisfying. This garden is built on old gravel diggings with rubbish dumped. I planted stuff where i could find soil without too much brick rubble/glass/plastic/agricultural poison containers and have since taken an area at a time, dug out rubbish, added the contents of the compost heap and planted. If I live long enough I'll get round the whole garden
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Verdun.
today i moved a large fern, i hope to build a stumpery, i also aim to incorporate a small pond.
i have also widened a boarder, i realise now that i should have marked clearly beforehand to have marked where i had previously planted bulbs!
Forget where the bulbs are? The most extreme example of this was 20 minutes after I'd planted them
In the sticks near Peterborough
All the stuff to do later is a good reason for doing some now.
er, um, no, can't remember who I am. Yes, hang on a minute. No, it's gone again.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nutcutlet. Im not that bad yet. Mind you, a friend fetched back some black tulips from Amsterdam last year for me and planted them. An hour after I spoke to my neighbour and he said that we had Squigs (squirrels) and that they would dig them up. Mum and I spent a further two hours searching. Head torches and all. We got them all but one. I have found it now as its started growing in the garden.
Verdun, thats good news. I will start moving stuff when the rain has gone
I removed a twisted hazel in October after it got far too big for one of my borders (despite radical pruning). I have mulched and put compost down to be taken into the soil over winter and also planted a David Austin climbing rose (Gertrude Jekyll) to train against the fence. My new year's resolution it to think carefully about what is going to go in place of the hazel - I am determined not to buy loads of plants just because I like them and just plant them anyoldhow. I do fancy a nice hebe at the front, along with a couple of lavenders and then perennials and annuals like the rest of the border.