To
enable us to have more plants a large area of the back “lawn”
was dug up and two large beds were created; one in 2006, the other in
the following year. Apart from the two pictures of specimen roses in the
front garden the others are all shots of the two new beds, taken in their
respective second year of being planted. Although they look more mature
than that this is because we subscribe to the old gardening adage of:
“give even a 50p plant a £10 hole”. We provided each
plant, bulb or shrub with a deep and wide hole with well broken up soil
supplemented with plenty of compost and grit; except for those plants
which hail from Mediterranean type regions which usually prefer a leaner
soil than our rich clay, in which case we cut out the compost and go strong
on the grit. |
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