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Border Patrol is a monthly review of my garden , borderline by border , rather than plant by plant . It ’s an opportunity to have a think about what is working , what ’s not , what could be moved or change . A zooming out . It ’s also fun to look back at the older posts and see how the garden have changed over meter . Shall we take a spin round the garden then ?
Rear Garden
First the overhead shot , taken by a passing plant delivery drone . With the recent compounding of fair weather and pelting , the garden is looking rather plushy . One might even say verdant .
Having resolved to take no more lawn ( this year ) , and having exhausting ( nearly ) all the useable planting space , I ’ve take to constitute up pots . I ’ve used whatever I had handy , many are just moldable florist shop bucket . A combination of annuals and perennial , I ’m hoping it will all satisfy out and produce a fake delimitation . I ’m also hoping we ’ll still be able to get up and down the steps !
The Patio Border – it ’s a game of two halves . I ’m almost 100 % glad with the view in the first characterisation , the good half of the mete is looking very good , gracious and full , the way I like it . There is a routine of a gap , just in front of the cosmos on the scurvy leftfield of the first flick , but otherwise I ’m felicitous . The two trellis are being slowly colonised from below and above by various climbers . The two roses , one on each trellis , are growing well but are obscured by taller plant at the moment . I even spy flowers if I get faithful enough to them , but for now I just want them to put on good maturation so I can start to groom them in this wintertime . The other end of this moulding is less good , I palpate . It does see pretty full , but that is a impermanent effect , courtesy of the poppies . When they come out , things may look a bit thin . I have planted mass of plants in that corner sphere , and they will fill out a bit , so perhaps I ’m worry unnecessarily . We shall see .
The Sunny Border – The bush and other plants have grown on a mountain in the last month . The lobelia tupa is 2′ taller , the tallest it has ever been . It often sprawls about under its own weight unit , so I ’m pleased I had clip to provide some support , just cane and train . It is standing up well – leave ! The roses and climber along the fence continue to do a solid job . I ’m particularly proud of with the combination at the left ending , the two clematis together amply get across the fencing panel . This is what I need down the whole fencing communication channel , so the others need to get a move on . There are opportunities to improve the main border too , I remember . There is a just space in front of the the red rise up in the middle photo . It has a couple of dahlia in it but they have been tear up by slugs and will be useless this year . I think I will dig them up and strain to keep them in pots next year where I can watch out for them a bit well . I have some genus Dianthus come which could go in the front row there , and afterwards in the year I have some foxgloves to embed out , grow from seed this class . I do still have some annual climbers to plant , I ’ve been obligate off as they are still modest . I will just implant them and be damned , either they will work or they wo n’t . Some of them are perennial anyway , so perhaps they will at least grow some roots and come out swing next year .
The Wisteria Border , incorporate the Eye of Sauron – I ’ve had a bit of a revelation in the last day or two . I mean I need to move many of the plant on the lawn side of the Eye boundary line to the other side of the circle . maybe . What I really need to do is sit down down with a pencil and graph newspaper publisher and plan the whole field out properly . I have planted a few thing on the wisteria side , including three ginger plant life that I grew from seed last yr . They are quite small still so not yet making an impingement . There are still many unsatisfactory gaps in the original border , along the trellis argumentation . Still , it is difficult not to enjoy the overall effect when it is so jungly . I wish I knew how to stop canna get crunch . Snails , I think , eat a agate line of holes which form it await like the leaf has been involved in a drive - by shooting . Often the end of the leaf fall off or turn up over unattractively . I must take that wisteria in mitt , its summer prune is overdue !
The Lilac Border – the slightly random ingathering of plants is beginning to fulfil the expanded space . The height of some of them is all wrong , some things call for moving , but for now it can await . Along with the Shady Border , this one is now hooked up to the irrigation organization . It gets irrigate for 15 minutes every other day . Seems to be working well . The relaxation of the garden is experience to wait , for wish of some cheap function for which I have been wait for months now . In general , I ’m well-chosen with the height , partly given by the wisteria and clematis which serve as backdrop , plus the joe pye weed and the fatsia in the street corner . compare to how it was in its little incarnation , I ’m fairly well-chosen with it .
The Shady Border – also expanded in the last month or two , lots of plants have survive in here , including the two new shrubs . The genus Viburnum tinus seems to be settle in nicely , set on some new increase . I have taken cuttings , so may have baby shrubs to grow on . The camelia is looking less happy , although only in that it is flopping about a chip . Perhaps I need to give it financial support while it is still untested . I spy spaces that could usefully be filled . I have cuttings brewing of some of the other industrial plant in this border so I may be able to use those later in the class . It may be that there is elbow room for another subtlety tolerant bush .
The Hibiscus Border – At the home of the treillage is a recently planted rose , William Lobb . Like its counterparts on the other side of the stride , it is growing well and flowering , not that you ’d get laid it unless mighty on top of it . Still , the important point is that it is growing well . As common , the hibiscus is nowhere to be realise . It is next to the brick pillar in the middle of the picture , behind the tall clump of genus Helenium . I ’d move it , but I think they eventually get quite big . Maybe I ’ll move it subsequently in the yr anyway , I can always move it back again if it does embiggen .
The Side Passage
The left side as you face at it in the first pic is very shady . Full shade all day . I have ordered a new rose for the container nearest the logic gate . Souvenir de Docteur Jamain is a climbing iron , shade tolerant ( in fact it requires shade ) and very fragrant . I ’m look forward to next year already ! In that same container are a crowd of geranium ‘ ingwersens variety ’ which have been gift their yearly haircut . They will be back with a retribution in a few weeks . The side passing will be first on the list to get hooked up to the irrigation when the teasing parts get . I find I leave to irrigate them and they do dry out out pretty fast .
Front Garden
I have removed some improbable plant life , believe it or not . The angelica and some of the foxgloves had reached the end of their useful life . In their place I have implant about 50 gladioli that I convey at bargain price in the conclusion of the goal of time of year sale – a dish of 24 for £ 1 ! They are just starting to come through now so it will be late summertime this year before they do anything , but next year should be fab . I call back there is way on that fencing line for another pink wine / clematis combining . I have a good size cutting of rose ‘ the Pilgrim ’ quick to go , plus a clematis of uncertain provenance , buy unlabelled . I retrieve I will constitute those and see what happens . There is still the odd empty space , and the planting nearest the house necessitate some rethinking . I also notice that the genus Dianthus nearest the drive is all dried out , distinctly the legendary irrigation is n’t making it that far , or perhaps it is just on its last leg . Those plants are several years old now . Anyhow , for the most part I stay very happy with how it all looks .
in conclusion , my colonized piece of verge . The Dahlia pinnata on the left hand side is enormous this year . it seems to like the very sandy grunge and is untroubled by our slimy booster . This bit of ground get the dispose spindly results of my overpropagation , so if it looks at all good it ’s very much fortune not judgement .
That ’s it for June . I ’ll be back in a month for another Border Patrol .
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