Gardening
The garden continues its winter slumber , with honestly not a fat lot going on . Still , it ’s an opportunity to see the bones of the garden . In this monthly series I am attempting to view the borders as a whole , see what I like , what must add up out , what works well together , that kind of stuff . Let ’s take a twist .
Rear Garden
Border 1 , the patio border . of late exposit , and living on borrow time . In former spring I will be ripping out everything in the original part of the boundary line . I ’ve already removed the scrappy fuchsia plants and a couple of the Potentilla . I have latterly added a few false hellebore , putting them under the cercis canadensis . As the cercis grows it should supply the mottled shade that the hellebore prefer . No sign yet of any of the recently planted bulb , positions marked by the opprobrious labels .
Border 2 – the cheery border . I am raring for the roses and clematis to mature and do a better job of cover this fence . I have some other annual climbers in mind to plug the interruption this add up summer . More on this soon . I have n’t changed much here other than moving a couple of crowded flora around . The existing bulbs are occur through , no sign yet of those fresh plant .
Border 3 – the wisteria border , incorporate the Eye of Sauron . I ’ve moved a couple of immature shrubs around , they were veracious on top of eachother . Perovskia , hydrangea ‘ annabel ’ and an eleagnus have all been space out a little good . I always underrate how much space will be needed , it would n’t massively storm me if I postulate to move them again in a twosome of yr . In general I see opportunity to improve this country , I ’d like it be stuffed to abound so that sitting in the Eye is like sitting in the boundary line .
Border 4 – the Lilac border . Meh . away from the fatsia japonica , not much to commend this border at the moment . I cut away lower branches and assorted chaff from the lilac , get up the canopy , so I should have distance to engraft underneath . I will have no dearth of plants follow the former outpouring , many of which need the partial shade that this delimitation provide .
Border 5 – the Shady edge . I ’m still looking at the abelia and wondering if it is desirable of its place , obscuring as it does quite a moment of place that might be well used for other more shade tolerant plants . Perhaps I should cut it back and move it to a sunnier spot . The genus Euphorbia in the second photo is looking bedraggled . I enquire if I should skip it back , or perhaps just give it a tidy up . I still have not decapitate the pittosporum , but it is living on borrowed time , at least in its current strain . I ’ll waitress till late wintertime I think . I seem to have missed it from all of the photo , but trust me , there is now a bamboo in the outer space where something grandiloquent was required . It ’s a modest division , hopefully it will bulge up over the next couple of years .
Border 6 , the borderline formerly known as short . I need to think of a estimable name now that I have finally get around to enlarging it . I put in a hibiscus which I moved from Border 1 where it was halter by helenium . Ironically , the space I had in judgment was occupied by … genus Helenium . I ’ve moved those a couple of foot aside , hopefully that will be enough place . Apart from that , and a few bulb , this is still virgin territorial dominion .
Front Garden
Border 7 , 8 and 9 . I have the beginnings of a revise plan for the front garden . It will involve removing the pathetic lawn , planting a lowly Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( a cornus kousa , probably ) and some brick edging . The balance of the planting will be adjusted to suit , and I ’ll need to supply some stepping stones to allow me to get in to the borders to maintain . Further rumination required . I would still dearly love to be free of the hated forsythia thicket on the boundary channel . I retrieve the sign next threshold is between owners at the import , perhaps an opportunity to roleplay now and assay pardon after ?
That ’s the mickle for this month . Another calendar month or two of homeliness still before the bulbs begin to do their thing .
I ’ll be back in a month for another border patrol .
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