I’ve taken some time away from the blog as I felt a little uninspired. I’ve also been enjoying running, completing a half marathon in Crystal Palace in February, Brighton marathon in April and the South Downs trail half marathon in June. Excuses aside, now that spring 2022 has finished I’m excited to share some of the developments in the garden
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Here’s an update of the major changes/developments in the garden during June. We planted up the final bed in the new herbaceous border – a project we started in March – as well as finish planting into the long border which sits next to the walled area. The cultivar of Persicaria which I talk about towards the end of the
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There’s so much to report on since the last video – hence why this is a longer video. I hope you enjoy seeing the big developments we’ve made to the garden this month.
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We dug over and planted into the bed which sits next to the new drive. As the space will be used to park the car, we choose to plant a grass that will fill out and create a nice green edge to the space, but won’t mind being stepped on from time to time. We used Hakonechloa ‘macra‘. This type
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As I mentioned in last months post, we now have 4 new planting beds at our disposal and this month we planted into 2 of these new spaces. For both beds we included shrubs for height and structure, as well as mid height and ground covering plants. We selected plants for their contrasting/complimentary foliage colours and textures and also thought
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