Index:
- Page 1 Site is prepared 2007-2008
- Page 2 Planting 2009
- Page 3 Planting 2010 (this page)
I have been very idle, or perhaps complacent, this year and taken very few photographs. We did manage to plant out pretty much everything in the Nursery bed – things we had grown from seed last year, and bits that friends had given us that had been mollycoddled, so the borders are quite full. However, there is no plan to it, everything has been thrown in where a space could be found. Neither the Herbaceous nor the Shrubbery borders are mature enough that we are inclined to wander round them with friends, plus the old tennis court is half-dug-up with huge piles of soil next to it, so the area looks like a building site.
We plan to rip up the second half of the tennis court this Autumn, seed that to grass, and then the area should be more presentable.
The yew hedge we planted around the old tennis court is very slow to get going. They were extremely cheap plants, planted at least a month too late in 2007, and we are still losing some each summer. Bit disappointing, as we would like this to create a screen and some “rooms” to differentiate it. If I’m honest the Yew have grown this year, the majority do look like they are “under way”.
I’m waffling … here’s a couple of photos, which is all I have.
Herbaceous Border Apr '10
These Spring flowering shrubs came out of the Front Hedge Replacement Project, and were very large / mature when moved. They have recovered and are regrowing. No doubt the Forsythia will look good in years to come. One Mahonia, the one in the middle of the bed of course!, was dead so we cut it right down – and by this Autumn even that had sprouted again. Remarkably resilient.
Better get cracking with the weeding though!
Herbaceous Border May '10
We managed to get the beds reasonable clear of weeds, and to fill in gaps with whatever plants we had in the Nursery beds.
Herbaceous Border Jun '10
A view down the Herbaceous Border to the path that will curve to the right in the informal woodland area; there is some colour, and in a year or two it will thicken up nicely.
Oct 2007 - Herbaceous Border Rotavated
Apr 2009 - Herbaceous Bed
Jun 2010 - Herbaceous Border
Jun 2011 - Herbaceous
Jul 2008 - Herbaceous
Mar 2009 - Herbaceous Border
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