Planning for the coming year
Looking outside my poor garden is really bare.
However it's good to have a look and try and picture what the garden needs in order to improve and what my garden definitely needs is some evergreen variegated bright yellow and green foliage so I'm going to put in some Euonymus fortunei Emerald 'n' Gold and maybe some of that nice variegated yellow and green vinca I have in my hanging baskets, a lot more hellebores because they have been fantastic all winter and some more camelias, they haven't flowered yet but their structure is lovely in the winter garden.
The winter flowering jasmine has been a nice bit of colour as well so there needs to be a lot more of that and some more evergreen ferns, they have been very attractive all winter.
What is on your winter garden wishlist?
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Plenty of evergreen interest for winter. I've planted up a border with winter shrubs and hellebores in the back garden but front garden is really bare in winter. Bought a variegated osmanthus to start and just wondering about other possibilities really heavy clay and shaded in the morning??
The variegated euonymus are really reliable, I like those.
I don't like the growth style of vinca so much, sort of flat and straggly.
I'd like some white Cyclamen coum for a start.
I have chimonanthus Tetley, I grew it from seed, at least 20 years to get flowers, first ones last year. Lovely but not much goiung for it out of flower. I'm trying to think of something not too overwhelming to grow through it
In the sticks near Peterborough
So euonymous really does climb? I was a bit dubious, I'd like to send it up the new fence. My neighbour has a couple and I'm not sure what has happened to them as they look very uninspiring - I think they were pruned badly.
Well butchered if we're honest
Love it - a hugging plant
Davidia from seed Tetley?
I probably haven't got time for that
Clematis might do OK if I find a smallish one. I wondered about Eccremocarpus, I think it would cope better with the soil. Clems always look a bit depressed here
Lou if you get the right euonymus they have little clingy roots like ivy. E. fortunei var radicans, though that might be out of date as a name, the radicans is about rooting stems. Emerald and Gold etc are cultivars
In the sticks near Peterborough
Good idea Tetley
In the sticks near Peterborough
Already got a plan for garden next year but it is mainly tidying up and repairs eg steps to stream need cementing in quite happy with planting
Need to have a think about hanging baskets , last year grew tomatoes in them , a bit of a mess !
Happy planning everybody
I'd be happy if I got everything from the polytunnels planted out this year.
Where am I going to plant out 150 zantedeschia though? I have visions of a great swathe of them along one edge of the lake, but it'll involve a huge amount of claerance.
Planning's the easy bit, it's the doing that's hard
So many things are what I call domino jobs, where you have to knock down any number of 'dominoes' to reach the desired end.
I would like to get rid of the backlog of unplanted plants languishing in pots. It would make them and me happier and tidy the place up. I wonder if a public declaration of intent will aid motivation? Perhaps we should have a sort of weightwatchers thread, with regular 'weighing up' of progress?