My garden would be awful and I would find it depressing with out evergreen structure. . . so many shades of green and then spring erupts around them. . . bulbs, erythroniums, hellebores, narcissi, etc etc. Then the pots of hostas come out form the back of the house.
I'll give you those two Verd - grudgingly....but you know what I mean about the usual suspects...
I think the problem with heathers is that every other Scottish garden has had then for forty years, so it's having that 'connection' my whole life. The lack of care most of them get too, as Hosta says.
I'll stick with walking on it on the hills
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think a lot of the problem with heather and dwarf conifer gardens is that they were promoted back in the day as 'low maintenance' so they were planted by or for people who didn't want to do much gardening ... so they either don't do it and the gardens look a mess, or like our neighbours opposite they find themselves doing much more gardening than they had anticipated in their old age.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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My garden would be awful and I would find it depressing with out evergreen structure. . . so many shades of green and then spring erupts around them. . . bulbs, erythroniums, hellebores, narcissi, etc etc. Then the pots of hostas come out form the back of the house.
I'll give you those two Verd - grudgingly....but you know what I mean about the usual suspects...
I think the problem with heathers is that every other Scottish garden has had then for forty years, so it's having that 'connection' my whole life. The lack of care most of them get too, as Hosta says.
I'll stick with walking on it on the hills
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think a lot of the problem with heather and dwarf conifer gardens is that they were promoted back in the day as 'low maintenance' so they were planted by or for people who didn't want to do much gardening ... so they either don't do it and the gardens look a mess, or like our neighbours opposite they find themselves doing much more gardening than they had anticipated in their old age.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Do yoy remember those 'dwarf' conifers being felled in Adrian Bloom's garden at Bressingham Dove?
In the sticks near Peterborough
They had a crane rigged up
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lantana:it kept smothering a lovely perennial pea and hardly ever graces us with a flower, so it's got to go.