"Anne Rogers" wrote in message
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I have a very small garden, when we bought the house 4 years ago, it was in
very poor condtion, with many old wiry shrubs, these have eventually all
been removed and most plants are annuals. We will be moving in October and
letting the house out, so ideally I would like to plant a few plants that
will keep things from looking entirely boring and prevent some plants from
taking over the garden.

The current long term plants are chives, mint, oregano and thyme, a patch
of alpine strawberries (which will take over any soil left exposed!), a
climbing rose and two clematis which have not liked the soil, so we are
not too bothered about them!

The main area I would like to place something in is a bed about 4m long by
1 foot wide, close the wall of the house, part of it is in front of a
lowish window, the soil is basically clay, alkaline, fairly well drained
and reasonable quality after a lot of work! Any ideas for cheapish plants
I could pop in there in September?

The other area it would be useful to put something is much more
challenging, 2 sections 2 metres long, but only 3 inches wide, soil is
sandy in places and there are several ivy roots still stuck in there. This
year I have been very sucessful with sweet peas in this area. It is also
an area very vunerable to wind.

Cheers

Anne


You could add Salvias (Sage) to the list of herb type things which should do
well in the sandy strips. Plenty to choose from but make sure you get
perennials and not the annual type