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Rod's Garden
Website building is on the back burner atm but in the meantime I've
uploaded loadsa pictures of what we've been up to in the last couple of years, so sorry no captions or explanations - just pictures. Folks who know me will understand that I can't invite visitors because although I'm largely to blame for what happens here it isn't strictly 'my garden' to invite friends into. That's the prerogative of the people who pay the bills and my wages. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/rodsgarde...0001/page1.htm -- Rod My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp Just remove the weedy bits and transplant the appropriate symbol at. |
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Rod's Garden
Thanks for that Janet.
That clearing was an area of about 3/4 acre of derelict woodland/garden - been used as a dump for years (not by me). To add insult to injury, previous gardeners had used lead mine waste - fine gravel for the paths and in places like on the top part of the cleared site it had washed off and made little 'deltas', we had to clear that and replace it with topsoil. So we have made for ourselves the dream job of planning and planting what is the only really sunny area in the garden. One of the sunniest borders will be a bit after the style of those German and Dutch 'Prairie' type planting, a-la Piet Oudolph (Jan's doing most of the planning and reasearch for that0. The beds on the edge of the woodland are mine for a woodland edge planting with trees shrubs and lots of naturalised bulbs etc.The big tree being taken down in pieces was a Sycamore on the bottom corner of the cleared plot, it had started to go in the middle about halfway up and half the crown was going to fall on powerlines behind it and possibly onto our cottage. Still sorry to see it go tho'. That wasn't us taking it down, they are a team of tree surgeons hired for the job. The other big tree coming down was yours truly doing the felling at the top of the Camellia Walk: removing that and a large Yew made a big area of semi darkness into nice dappled shade for finishing the Camellia Walk planting. That's me with the helmet under my arm doing a post felling debriefing with Phil. What we did with the Camellias, because it's not *really* a money mine here, we bought 3 plants of each of about 50 varieties about 5 years ago and deliberately planted them too close together - like 3 where we really only need one in the long run. We now have a stock of well grown plants to move to other parts of the garden as it develops. Been doing some of that today and last week. Most of what goes into this garden is work - there's only 3 of us but I feel very strongly that it's the kind of place that would be ruined if you suddenly threw loads of cash at it. |
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