Border Patrol – July 2017

Gardening

I ’ve done quite a lot of boundary line re - jig this year , in both the front and back gardens . I think I would do up a post to record the development to date this year and I can then equate and counterpoint at a standardised time next yr .

Rear garden

Border 1 . I double the breadth ( front to back ) of this perimeter earlier thisyearand replanted it to a great extent . It has fill out quite nicely . The aubrieta has been a disappointment , it is sulking a bit . The dianthus , however , is thriving . I grew these from seed , resulting in 80 plants which I took the clip to pinch out a couple of time when they were just sting out . They are beginning to flower . I almost dig up the rosemary , and I ’m not totally glad with it there . The mallow was an unexpected visitor , that ’ll be die by next class . The genus Potentilla , which was a little underwhelming at first , is prove to be a act of a trooper , flowering like billio .

Border 2 . The long sunny border was 80 % replanted earlier in theyear . I ’m pretty felicitous with the way of life it has bulked out , but there is still a portion of fencing showing . I have some more climb roses to imbed out afterwards in the year when I can get to the fence line , and I stay on to look for good mounter to augment the clematis I plant this year . This time next yr I hope that fence is moderately much invisible .

Border 3 . I call up this border is really only half done . I had a architectural plan for it , but have n’t fully executed the plan . I think I ’m going to take out the big shrub – the buddleiea and the black elder , which between them hog the border . There is also a group of three right broom plant which were small when I pay off them but are now forming a just thicket – I think I ’ll thin that out and move it somewhere else .

Border 1

Border 4 . I have n’t paid any design attention to this border this year , but I think it may be my favourite . Just at the second it has a lot going on leaf - wise which I like a lot . I have planted several plants in here this year , amongst which were some aster , phlox , linaria and a hardy geranium . Some self - seeded nasturtium are take a crap their presence feel .

Border 5 . I was about to typecast that I have n’t done anything here this class , but that ’s not really truthful . I have n’t done much , but I have planted some aster , hachonecloa , two hardy geraniums , some astilbe divisions and some digitalis parviflora . And probably a few other things too ! The border is the mirror of Border 2 but is in shade most of the day , fond shade on the front edge . There ’s quite a circumstances rifle on . The big shrubs need some work . I ’ve hard crop the dogwood this class , but the pittosporum and the physocarpus are both getting a bit leggy .

borderline 6 . This small delimitation is a bit unloved . It ’s not very recollective , nor very deep from front to back . There ’s some scrappy lavender , some lychnis , some volunteer genus Solidago and some helenium , recently re - planted divisions . I do n’t think I can make it any deeper as it ’s a fairly gravid traffic expanse given the law of proximity of the side bowling alley and the wash line . I think there ’s an opportunity to make more impressive role of the space , though . The plantation owner behind it on the patio is not really adding to the fit at the moment , it ’s best mean solar day are in April / May , so that needs to be addressed somehow . Perhaps I can crush some more genus Helenium in here , or possibly some more recent deal planty leverage . design a - hatch , determine this space .

Border 2

Front garden

Border 7 . I widen this border and completely re - institute it just over a monthback . It has bulked up a lilliputian , but is still on the low side . It ’s a vast advance on what was there before .

Border 8 . A sword new border thisyear , along with Border 9 . These were antecedently weeds and a rather unloved scrap of lawn . The planting , just 4 weeks old , is still quite thin and crushed , but everything seems glad enough . I sow ejaculate of cosmos in here as a bit of a late Irish pound , and while not a lot has come up , there are a yoke of low seedling there .

Border 2

edge 9 . Still very low and young . Like Border 8 , it demand a chance to fill out . I ’ve also renovated what ’s left of the lawn , air out it and fertilise it .

That ’s my Border Patrol all over for July , I think I may sprain this into a monthly smear , if for no other reason than it ’ll pull me to document the changes .

I ’ll be back presently with more propagating malarchy .