garden
The pic herein were select on the last day of November , so the pictures are legit , even if the writing is happening in early December . In this series of monthly posts , I am memorialise for posterity the state of the borders in my garden , with the mind that I can retrospect , compare , contemplate , cogitate and occasionally make decisions . I was search back at last calendar month ’s Border Patrol post . There was not much colour leave in the garden , but there was so much more than is leave now ! We are in the drab phase , and I am reminded once again that I do n’t have a great deal of wintertime pursuit , something I should rectify . Anyhow , let us take a twisting .
Rear Garden
Border 1 – The patio border . Having already resolved to strip this border bare and begin again , I shall say no more other than to note that I have plenty of plants waiting for a spot in this borderline . I should also sum up that I have planted more bulbs in the young part of the moulding , and also a tree . Still pocket-size , it should get slowly over the next 10 years or so , get to perhaps 3 m tall . It is a cercis canadensis ‘ forest pansy ’ , promising three season of interest . This distinctly is n’t one of them …
Border 2 – The sunny border . Not so cheery just now , matter are wait threadbare . I have cut most thing back for the wintertime and the shrub are bare . I have plant tulip electric-light bulb in this border since the last patrol , and have also given it a good mulch with lately made compost .
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Border 3 – The Wisteria border , incorporating the Eye of Sauron . The titular wisteria has dropped its leave-taking so I can now see clearly what needs bind in . I will give it the 2d prune over the Christmas break , but for now it can stay unmolested . More tulip and narcissi have gone in these borders , and the dahlia have all been ignore back and return a leaf mould duvet . I have a few 12 alliums that I have found in 7 cm pots for now . In the spring when I can see where the gaps are , I ’ll plant them out around the sunnier side of the garden . There are already a lot of alliums in this border , but really , can one have too many ? course of action not . Lots of my home - made plant label can be seen , generously scattered through the boundary line . Each marks the berth of a dormancy perennial or perhaps a buried grouping of bulbs . They are very nearly the only interesting matter in this border at the moment!Now that the perennial have die back or at least pass gracefully , I mark that the eleagnus ‘ mercury ’ and the hydrangea ‘ annabel ’ are in too close-fitting a proximity . In fact there is a perovskia that is too secretive to both of them . I call for to do a bit of works juggle or they will get in eachothers way . I ’m somewhat happy with this orbit , but I am look forward to developing this corner of the garden next twelvemonth . I am bright that some of my disciplinal pruning and training of the wisteria will result in a more even spread of heyday .
Border 4 – The lilac border . I have been making endanger gestures toward the lilac in this border , sound off that it is getting too big for its breeches , crowding out the other plants . Since last sentence I have take away any untidy or annoying lower branches , effectively raising the canopy a couple of feet . This should allow more room for the underplanting . I will allow further judgement until it is in foliage again . I might well remove the rosemary from this border . Whilst it is evergreen , it is an untidy shape and take the blank of several more interesting potential characters . While wrestling with the trespassing jasmine a week or two back , I was reminded that the treillage is leaning drunkenly as the right-hand fence post has rot at the ground . The big ceanothus that I remove month back was doing a good problem of holding it up , it seems . Shoring this up will be a line of work for the wintertime .
Border 5 – The Shady border . I continue to tinker with this border but in general am pretty well-chosen with it . I have answer to decapitate the leaning pittosporum as there is lots of nice vertical growing appear lower down on the trunk . I was latterly place a chunk of a bamboo which will go in the col behind the Lorenz Hart tongue fern . The abelia , severely pruned earlier this year , is develop pretty unevenly , obscuring the underplanting that I perhaps unwisely planted just after I pruned it . I have to decide what to do about it .
Border 6 – The as - yet - unidentified edge . No modification since the last time , except some medulla have been planted in the novel area . I have the start of a planting plan in head for this border . It will involve geraniums , plausibly planted along the bound penny-pinching to the itinerary .
Side alleyway
A mates more planters have been added since last meter , I think , and new climb rose have gone in them , right at the back of this photo . Both are David Austin roses , ‘ The Pilgrim ’ and ‘ Clair Austin ’ , a yellowed and white respectively . I have a climb ‘ Getrude Jekyll ’ waiting in a pot , I need to ramp up its planter . The clematis MT in the nearest two planters have both grown on smartly , to the point where I now cerebrate I need to add two or three more wire supports higher up . I am hoping for some early flowers next class .
Front Garden
Borders 7 , 8 and 9 . Yet more bulbs have go in here , tulip mostly . Some of my Malcolm stock of genus Allium will go in here in the spring . I lean to use the front garden as a bit of a dumping ground for spare plants . This is hunky-dory , the state of the front garden just a couple of years back is still a recent enough memory that literally anything is good than that . Judging by my current overstock situation , I shall have slew of options to refreshen up the planting get spring time . I have to settle what to do about the frankly useless bit of lawn that is depart . After all my Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - dithering , it has go on to me that the cornus kousa that I rejected for the back garden might go very well in here , just where the lawn is now . I would need to have a think about how best to use and get at the whole place if I do that . A squeamish trouble to have . Next door have sell their theater , leaving me with some hope that I might be able-bodied to sway our Modern neighbour to countenance me dig up the hated forsythia on our edge and replace with a fencing , all the ripe for me to grow material up .
That concludes the tour for this month .
I ’ll be back in the bleak midwinter with another Border Patrol .
