Blog : My new Purple Border

Great job so far, inspiration for us all

On the stump, I'd keep it too, grow something up it or even turn it in to a bird table??

 

Great idea - fix some sort of bird feeder to the top and a framework for climbers around the bottom half with maybe one of the smaller Clematis

 

Photographs can be decieving ... apart from the three panels on the left (one of which I've accidentally put a mattock through now, ooops !) the rest are knackered ... rotten, two are flapping in the wind. Plus most panels are of different designs, which REALLY sets my OCD off, lol !

 

I have a couple of conifer stumps that i couldn't afford to get ground out. They are much lower to the ground than yours though. This year i am going to try and cut into them (with a router or an axe!) and plant alpines in them, try and make them into shallow planters.

 

I'd keep it too, it will give you options about what to use to give height. However, it will eventually rot and then you'll have to have another rethink (probably in about 2023).

 

After bowing to the immeasurable persuasive talents that GC holds .... okay then, I'll keep the stump ! But I'm having a climbing rose up it.

All the conifers, shrubs and trees gone ! Just got the nasty concrete posts to go. Pain.



... including a concrete surprise. Neighbour tells me this is the remains of the coal shed. It had a couple of inches of soil on top. Going to be a right pain to remove, not sure how (without hiring a Kanga). Bolster chisel doesnt work, it's too thick.



Stump tastic ! At least I'll have some firewood for next year.

 

sorry to but in, bein a newbie and all, but I'd go with the clematis idea, it'll look great!

 

Why not make use of the concrete by planting something on one side of it that you like but don't want to spread too far?

 

Could do, you mean like bamboo ?
Would prefer it out though

 

My girlfriend recently got me a book from the local library, is called Black Magic & Purple Passion by Karen Platt , it names all the black and purple plant available.
Ps apparently there is even a nursery specialised in black and purple plants only.

 

I was thinking of some of the spreading herbs, there are some purple flowered and purple leaved ones, or maybe something like a vinca (periwinkle).

 

I've ordered a 'Gertrude Jekyll' (6' climber, deep pink) for the stump. I AM putting a clematis in ('Tiedye', purple and white) but I've a suprise coming for what that's going to go up

 

Len i would have the stump removed mate .. to me it looks an eye sore.. think you will regret keeping it when your new fence is installed .. just my opinion .. Micky