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Autumn flower beds
Oh no, I've had to pull up bedding as we've had some arctic nights down here on the South Downs and some of it has died back.
I've also had a lot of trouble with some ground elder that has been masquerading as the foliage of St Brigit anenome which has gone a bit rampant. I've now got some depressing empty patches in my borders and I'm thinking of filling them with evergreen plants as I have very few evergreens in the back garden.
I'm it's clay shade so I'm thinking euphorbias, they will look good all year round. I may put in a couple of dwarf azaleas also and there is a mulberry tree to go in when the old bay stump has been dug up.
Lot's of work to do in the next few weeks.
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Some little euonymus variegated leaved, they look lovely when the daffs start to grow as well.
Yes i do like those, they can grow up a fence I think?
Don't think so, they are little stand alone plants, mine are anyway, and quite slow growing, I have them some of them near to the front of the border.
in the mean time, give the ground elder a quick blast of glyphosate.
I'm going to have to, it lulled me into a false sense of security and has gone mad.
I rarely use any chemicals in the garden, but it's the only way forward sometimes, unless you have infinite time, effort and enthusiasm. I have none of those.
especially if it's coming from next door.
Yes, that swine doesn't know what gardening is. he let his fence fall into our flower bed and didn't make any effort whatsoever to pick it up, my husband had to go out eventually and mend it at our expense.
Unfortunately he overheard me calling him all the names under the sun and has avoided me since. I do try hard not to fall out with neighbours.
I'm racking my brain to think of some good evergreen perennials that will grow in clay shade. There can't be that many!