trees – Guy's Garden

May 2021: Exploding Hostas

Here is a short recording of progress in the garden during May. I am going to make a concerted effort in future videos to not repeat certain phrases and words – apologies for the repetition!

22/09/2020 ferns / flowering plants / foliage / plant design / tree planting / trees

August 2020: New planting beds

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

21/04/2020 ferns / grasses / hostas / pear tree / silver birch / tree planting / trees

March 2020: Spring planting

In last month’s post I talked about how we prepared a large new planting bed. In March we planted 2 trees into this space and they’ve instantly provided height and impact. Since we’ve already planted 3 multi stem silver birch in the garden (Betula utilis var. jacquemontii), we thought it would be effective to plant a single stem cultivar called

07/01/2020 gardening / new plants / trees

December 2019: Planting a multi-stem cherry tree and reflections on 2019

We planted a bare root ornamental cherry tree (prunus serrula) in December; it’s a multi-stem specimen and we positioned it at the foot of the mound that we created in June. Situating it near the foot of the slope means that it’s slightly raised (when viewing from the path) and this gives impact. It’s also near the walkway to

23/12/2019 Autumn colours / autumn walks / bare root / crab apples / ferns / garden visits / gardening / new plants / trees

November 2019: Planting bare root crab apple trees

In November our order of crab apple trees ‘Evereste‘ arrived. They came bare root via the post so we had to soak them prior to planting. We ordered 12 so we could plant 3 around each quarter of the wall – the picture below gives you an impression. We chose this variety since they are disease resistant and the blossom

26/05/2019 dry stone wall / flowering plants / gardening / planting beds / spring / trees

April 2019: We finished the wall

On the 20th of April we finally finished the wall which we started back in August 2017. Luckily for us the weather was fine over the Easter break which meant we were able to crack on and finish the beast! It feels great to look out on the garden and know that we never have to make another dry stone