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Ground Cover Options?

SebUKSebUK Posts: 11
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Hello All, 

After a few suggestions for groundcover options... Have just cleared an resonably large area at the bottom of the garden of weeds and general detritus... soil is really poor, a layer of dust covering soil thats like concrete... 

Not sure what I really want to do with the area, so want something to grow that will keep weeds down, until I get decide what to do... but also something thats not going to be a total nightmare to get rid of once I do get round to cultivating it... 

Any suggestions?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,109

    My first thought is seed it with grass. image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SebUKSebUK Posts: 11

    image Did cross my mind! Was looking at a grass and wildflower mix but... thought I'd check on here to see if anyone thought of anything better...image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Have to get rid of those stumps to mowing, hard work there.

    What's the aspect seb? 

     

     

     

     

     

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • SebUKSebUK Posts: 11

    View in the pic is looking south west....  Does get pretty baked... 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    wild flowers might be a good way to go. They put up with a lot.  



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ShuvShuv Posts: 18

    How about hardy geraniums? Lovely flowers and the bees love them too.....

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 23,977

    I think a wild flower meadow mix would be good too. They can look lovely. Here is a pic of one we saw in Yorkshire last summer.

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    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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