A garden I made (but sadly not mine)

They are very good clients so they deserve it - God bless them!!

 

Another bit:

 

Love the water - such cool colours to compliment. fancy a go with the ligularia, I have two varieties that do very well, so will look out for rocket.

I thought they were eremerus too - and on that subject, I found four today that had been overgrown by shrubs, loads of leaf but could not flower, so moved them to a sunny spot before I forgot about them.

How long ago did you "Make" the garden? it looks very mature.

 

I've been at it since 1984, the pond area was 'made' in 1989. I will soonish drop a photo in here that shows it shortly after construction. Suppose I look a bit mature these days too. It's quite frightening to note that a couple of mature trees were put in by me. Of course one may consider a garden to grow rather than be made, but a bit of direction can definitely improve things..

The rose garden was inherited, has been rebuilt twice (the pergola frame bit), and replanted over the years with increasingly old fashioned or disease resistant roses in an effort to bypass the rose replant syndrome, and the box hedging, clematis, and ground cover added.

The herbaceous border was made out of a neglected area containing a couple of monumental but sickening hazel coppices, and some vast philadelphus coronarius among an outside toilet,a strip of grass, and some unenchanting crazy paving.

If interest from the group endures I'll post some 'evolutionary' pictures for general interest and discussion.

PS piccys of eremurus coming up tomorrow...

 

Pretty impresive stuff jasid, I think if you've been working on it all those years, its got to be partly yours anyway.

 

Oh p;ease post some more, it is a treasure.

I am half inspired to formal plant my urrrr what we call the "boat house" but don't suppose wild flower enthusiasts would appreciate the move.

Love to see eremerus - we had some about 18 years ago then lost them, then I planted some about 5 years ago, we had a couple of flowers then as I say they got overwhelmed by large shrubs and forgotten.

I have planted them fairly close to surface - hope this it OK, I seem to remember they like shalow planting.

 

In between football, son, and avoiding wifely attempts to get me more in the kitchen cooking let me ak you Waco to put the boat house on the web: piccy please!!

In all my years I have never worked in a place with its own natural water and it hurts me. What a treat

 

Oh its there somewhere, nothing special, just a clearing we made on the river side for evening G & T's "Boat house" is a somewhat sarcastic term.

Its funny but a river is not always a blessing to a garden, you have to protect it from being washed away, then what you plant dies cos its flooded, then it comes up with Indian balsam and ground elder.

This is the picture that is already on GC but I will take one from road side - I really value your ideas jazid thanks.

 

anyway what are you talking about, your second picture appears to have natural water?

 

No unnatural I'm afraid. Just the gardeners art to make it appear so. It is difficult to explain but there is something essentially bogus about a pond fed (at source) by a tap. My heart leaps when I see a ......stream....I just see potential. Anyway, I burnt the cabbage, saw S. Korea's equalizer - to the delight of my son, and am now not entirely sober, so I shall 'hic'sign off till the morrow. But really a lovely lovely view Waco, just dont want to embarrass myself currently

 

I know what you mean!

by the way have not forgotten about the foot fetish plant "podowatsitsname" but just seemed a bit daft sending it in this hot weather.

I know what you mean about "Created" water, I was once taken by a farrier on a job to a fantastic man made water garden, it really impressed me, but looking back it was somehow contrived.

we can't get the water into our garden as we need the snowberry to both hold the bank together and protect us from everyone wyo peers in - not that I mind dragging enthusiasts into the garden, I just don't like nosey parkers!

but the "boat house" is my wild bit (brought about by flood) where we go for a quiet evening G & T

Pleased it interests you.

 

Foxtail Lilies, oodles of em. This was taken a few years ago, the lilies have since become somewhat overcrowded, and I don't know quite what to do about that. Any ideas for untangling creepy root things without breaking them all?

The season this was taken I was proud of: the wall has varieties of espaliered pears and dwarfed apples along it, so is lovely in April/May which is also when the ground cover lily of the valley comes out. Then the foxtail lilies do their stuff in June, and as the days draw in self seeded amaranths develop their lovely autumn foliage which they hold for several weeks.



Finally there's all the fruit to ogle. Good performance from a 3ft wide border.

 

PS still ruminating on the boathouse Waco. Do you have a couple more snaps to show - or are they in some other (probably obvious) part of GC?

 

A view from an this year. I know they don't exactly look crowded here...

 

Will take some snaps of boat house.

As to foxtails, I descovered a load in over grown shrubs yesterday, and rather than let them die back and forget they were there I took a chance and have moved them now.

they were the smaller pink ones, I lifted them with a fork, its dry so soil easily crumbled away, then just replanted.

You are however supposed to do it in Autumn.