Mr Grinch's Garden

Hope you are ok ? The lambs ears are surviving

 

My newly planted box are doing well, but i have very well drained soil.
I too have a tree peony which I've kept potted this past year. It did have a flower when I got it which was snapped off when it fell over in a strong breeze. Since then it seems to have grown a bit. I didn't know they were short lived? We have herbaceous peonies here which must be over 30 years old. They'd got so big I had to dig some bits up for a friend.

 

no no the flower is short lived.

 

Took a big decision today. The kids flower/veg patch has gone. It just wasn't working, due to the wet of that corner, anything with a decent root would die in winter and in summer only shallow root crops like lettuce would grow. The kids were bored with it so i took out all the soil, decent stuff top soil compost mix but boy what a pong, proof that it was just festering underneath. All the soil has now been spread to mulch my last border. In the spring, the wood will be taken out and i have decided to do them a little wildlife pool. See how what works out.

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Good idea to put a wildlife pool there instead if it's so wet. You also get the fun of choosing some pond plants!

 

I remember when area was just an enclosed pool when the water would not drain away, within three days there was a frog in it, im hoping for the same

 

Any donations of spawn most gratefully received.

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Im looking to get a good size Ceanothus 'Pershore Zanzibar' but everywhere i have seen they are small plants. Does anywhere have any idea where i could get a 3 to 4 foot specimen ?

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I know but i want to put it at the back of the border and smaller plants will drown a small one out plus im impatient.

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