My Garden Project

You so should do a thread i would love to see what you have achieved. The people who had my house before never gardened either or before that.

The soil I have is silt to sand it depends which part of the garden you dig lol

Just dug a hole in the veg patch for my beauty berry and well that bit was very very sandy.

Anything that can stand up to extreme weather sounds good to me

My garden is also dead south facing and there is next to no shade in any of it.

Would love to hear your suggestions for plants

 

Perhaps I'll set up a thread during the winter months when it's not so busy here on GC. A lot of my garden pics are old photographs so it will take time to get those scanned in to my computer.

I've learnt since living here it is best to go with either hardy evergreens or plants that die back for the winter otherwise they get destroyed. The hedging around my garden is Escallonia, Hebe and a small hedge across my front wall which is Potentilla. These are some of my plants below.....

Choisya 'Sundance' (evergreen)


Clematis Macropetala 'Wesselton', this is early spring flowering and hardy, overall height 6-8ft.


Geranium


Iris.....they love sandy soil. All mine are dwarf as I haven't got room for the larger ones.


Lupins


Sedum (Ice plant)


Taxus (Yew), evergreen......to the left of this is Papaver a perennial oriental poppy.


There's also roses but they take a lot of looking after on a sandy soil, particularly feeding, but 'Rugosa' roses look after themselves, they are much hardier. Alpines, all types of rock plants do very well on sandy soil too and good for front of border.

I'll be planting out a young Weigela later in the year, they are deciduous so it should survive the winter and stand up to wind very well. I will hasten to add the island's temperatures don't drop very low during the winter months, no more than about -5 but plants do have to contend with a lot of rain and gale/storm force winds. My front garden faces south-east and back garden north-west and get all day sun this time of year.

 

Thank you sheal

I have a sedum spectabile already that i was planning to propagate throughout the border

I dont have much luck when it comes to lupins and clematis they just get eaten to death

I do like the first shrub tho that is very nice may have to get myself one of those

 

The veg patch area is finished well there will be more plants going in but all the boring stuff has finished





Ignore the random bits of crocheted work up they are not staying there.

When u sit in the bench it feels like sitting in a room that doesn't have a ceiling its well nice and no one can see into this but of the garden which is lovely

 

You've done a great job there Dips!

 

Thank you its mad to think it was a big pile of soil with massive trees in and some dead trees in there last year

The space was so wasted and so dark

 

wow!!!! i love our garden!!!!

 

Ah thank you eve

 

It looks heavenly in that secret spot and I'm sure you will enjoy many a precious hour in there.
Thank you for sharing this with us Dips,
Jenny

 

Quick update on the garden. Im waiting on a new garden path and patio so that will be the next update but the new flower beds have been marked out. The fence is green and planted with climbers and trees and hebes and hydrangeas and the bulbs have been planted.

So here is the new layout



The beds down the side if the path will be a lavender hedge and there will be arches on each side over where u walk onto the grass with roses on each side of the arch and then climbers in the arches.

The patio is being extended up to the new bed that has been dug out on the bottom left of the pic so that it is in line with the water feature

These are the slabs the patio and path are going to be made from



It will be like the pic on the path but it will be horizontal on the patio and will be tapered round so it looks like its turning. Hard to explain that bit.

There is going to be a corner pergola over the patio where that bit of grass is now. Which will eventually have a white wisteria growing on it.

And here is the new fence. And the beginnings of it being planted up







Hope some of that made sense. I also have quite a few perennial plug plants that are being over wintered in the green house that will be planted in the bed next year.

 

It's all coming together very, very nicely Dips. Such grand plans you have... it will look fabiosa....
Jenny

 

just ...I cannot believe I've missed your thread

Absolutley fabulous Dips

 

Thanks jenny and lolimac

Still got a long way to go but its slowly transforming into the picture i have in my head

 

@Dips are your raised beds the plastic type? i have been looking at them online for my garden for a while now, would be interested in where you got yours to compare ,if you have a link, that would be great x garden looks amazing x

 

@maria yeh they are plastic ones i got mine from link a board http://www.linkabord.co.uk