The slug defences are working well! Nothing more has been nommed
in my new flowerbed since the homemade cloches went on, and both the
Lychnis and the Aster (virtually eaten to death) are making a good
recovery. Otherwise I’m out every evening watering and peering at each
plant in turn, impatiently waiting for them to grow.
From this..........................
Now
that my fence flowerbed is planted up and sorted, it was time to turn
my attention to my second flowerbed. Covered in weeds and overgrown
lumpen shrubs, I got in some professional gardeners to pull the lot up
and leave me with a lovely blank canvas to work on. I can do anything!
However
its rapidly become clear that choosing what to plant is no easy task.
Whilst the fence bed was super easy – (it was ordered from garden on a
roll, so I simply chose the look I wanted and clicked), I now need to
make all the decision for the new bed: choose the plants (there are
hundreds out there!), decide how many I need, figure out how they grow,
how far apart to plant them, what to put next to what, how big they get,
how much maintenance they need etc etc. It hasn’t helped that my other
half has vastly different ideas to me about what to plant; he favours
textural greenery, low maintenance, maybe a dash of white bloom here and
there, I prefer a cottagey garden look with riots of colour. Not
exactly a meeting of the minds.
In the end I think it will come down to who’s willing to research the plants, measure up, and get the credit card out – i.e. ME!
Before and after......................
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