Gardening , Propagation
Having completed Border 1 a few wèeksago , it is metre to get on with the foresighted margin , border 2 . The border is 8 m recollective by about 1.2 one thousand wide . It is southish front so gets the Sunday for most of the daytime , although it is progressively shade by the house from former good afternoon . The ground is naturally a little sandy , but I ’ve mulch it twice in the last 6 months . First time was with compost from the heap before Christmas , second was with a thick-skulled mulch of pass mushroom compost to begin with in the springtime . As a result the soil social system is becoming quite good , or at least seems it to my uneducated eye . For plants in a jackpot 1 litre or tumid I have developed a liking for my post - hole digger as a dick for implant out . It makes short piece of work of a good wide , abstruse planting hole .
Here is the plan for Border 2 , split into two so it will accommodate on the Thomas Nelson Page .
‘ The three shrubs mark “ tbc ” remain so . I ’m waiting till some cuttings have originate on large enough to plant out . In the meantime I ’ve stolen that space for perennials . Looking again at the program , what I in reality planted bears little resemblance to what I ’d planned . Most of the plants are the same , but the localization are quite unlike . I think an far-famed full general once said that there ’s only one matter more useless than a battle plan , and that ’s not having one at all . The architectural plan provided a useful theoretical account for the planting but I was not able-bodied or indeed slope to stand by rigidly to it .
Starting at the far correct close of the moulding , where I did not follow with the programme very well . I cleared this end of the border a couple of workweek ago , there were a mates of atrocious shrubs which I consign to the council compost cumulation .
That ’s all the space from the hamemilis molis to the end of the border . Here it is all constitute out .
In the central foreground are a mathematical group of primula japonica ‘ millers crimson ’ . I arise 60 of these from ejaculate , which was right smart too many in the first place , but I also now find that they care boggy ground , ideally pond - side . I ’ve created a facsimile of this by digging up a few straightforward infantry of ground and lining it with a threefold level of compost handbag and refilling it . I have not add any drainage , so it should get properly boggy . By way of experimentation , I also constitute a few plant life in the normal ground , I shall liken and counterpoint . Behind those are a group of 5 mystery plants . I can not for the life of me recall what they are , I got them as teeny plug plants in a winter recurrent offering a year or two ago . They have been parked in a nursery layer since then . They ’ll be easy to identify once they have flowered , I hope . Behind those is a euphorbia conigera that I bought at a plant sightly , and to the leftfield of that is a cornus midwinterfire that I should have found at the far end of Border 1 but whose spot was usurped by foxgloves . This issue forth from a rooted chump that I was hold by a neighbor . To the left wing of the mystery plant is a geum , a recent plant life average purchase , an orange variety , allegedly ‘ Hannah ’ and also a smattering of oriental poppy . At the rearward left hand of the picture are a larget group of helenium autumnale , and in front of those some crocosmia the Tempter . I also dot around a few pull round cosmos ‘ rubenza ’ and also some more eventide primrose . There are mayhap too many plants in this area , but I prefer to err on the side of too many , a well - stuffed border being preferable to me than a spottily planted one . I can always remove plants if it gets too crowded . Unless otherwise stated these have all been develop from source this year .
go further to the remaining , up as far as the hamamelis mollis , I have at least pay some lip service to the plan . A cluster of dahlia ‘ bishops children ’ have been planted here . The [ R ] in the program was think to be a rose , danse de feu , which I was crossing my fingers would survive as a slip . It has indeed live on . I ’ve decided to go forth it in its pot for now , although as you’re able to see in the photo I have placed it in its eventual planting hole . I require to let the root develop for a while before planting it out properly . It should clamber up the fencing and operate well with the neighbouring clematis . Between the dahlia and the hamamelis are some nicotania sylvestris . The white lychnis coronaria and the pinks next to them are existing plants that I ’ve exit be .
I found I had a lot of reasonably light and airy planting quad under the canopy of the witch - hazel ( hamamelis mollis ) that I did n’t report for in the design . Under here I have found some wild bergamot and some geum ‘ mrs j bradshaw ’ . In fact I have n’t constitute the geum , merely placed them where I require them . I only recently pot on these divisions and I want to give the roots a chance to occupy more amply the space they have in the pot .
I ’m not 100 % convinced I like the crone - hazel , it does n’t do much for me interest - smart , although I ’ve had it for years . The blossom are a rather boring nuance of yellow . I might sponge it up next year , we ’ll see .
Moving fleetly along , further up the border , a blastoff from above makes it easier to show the planting . From right to left , some more geum , some more wild bergamot , then behind the lily are some crocosmia morning star . To the rightfield of the lily are some verbena bonariensis which I go for will add some height to the front half of the border . At the back is another rose ‘ danse de feu ’ , a rooted newspaper clipping like the other one . The cordyline is an exist slightly scrappy plant life I am abide for reason that escape me . In front of that I ’ve planted some antirhinum and potentilla ‘ monarchs velvet’ . At the top left is a dahlia , ‘ Rebekah world ’ , I think . Moving on up to the escalonia , the ball of astilbe at the front is an existing plant life , and to the left and behind that are more dahlias . The three at the back are unexampled tuber that I ’ve grown on this class , ‘ Rebekah ’s populace ’ , ‘ Caribbean phantasy ’ and ‘ Manhattan Island ’ , the residuum are ‘ Bishop ’s Children ’ all of which I originate from seeded player last year and overwinter . There are also some evening primrose towards the front , and more monarda behind the Dahlia pinnata on the left .
There is still some place at the very front , I have some dianthus appropriate for that .
move along further we ’re into mainly survive plant life rather than new planted . The escalonia was for the high - jump but inconveniently it has ultimately bloom , at least on half the shrub , so I ’ve left it in for now . I did plant the lobelia tupa in the correct place , but less than I ’d design due to the escalonia . They are a niggling lost behind the escalonia but should grow up to be tall so that the flower show . trust they are perplex enough luminousness down there .
Finally , the far left of the border . The loosestrife , anemone , alchemilla mollis , physocarpia were existing plants so they are as per the design . I put in some more astilbe division at the front .
The various clematis growing along the fencing are beginning to flower , I ’m expecting better thing from them next year once they ’re more established .
So that ’s it , the full length of the border . The arena that are in the main fresh plants wait a small sparse at the moment but they ’ll soon bush out and rise up , particularly with all the rain we ’re having at the moment .
I ’ll be back soon with newsworthiness of Border 3 .
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