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How to safely plant a soakaway?
Thanks, Sacha. Ferns do well in this area, the hedgerows harbour them,
and there are several big clumps on the border of my soakaway-lawn already. I know they erupt from big fleshy "pods" - with delicate roots on the underside of these. I wonder if these hair-like roots WOULD penetrate a few feet if they sensed the moisture beneath? I like the idea of several groups of tree-ferns, in twos and threes of different heights, with lots of more ordinary ferns inbetween and scattered around. This would look less "unkempt" than a wildflower lawn - which, anyway, I believe needs to be mown and maintained if the wildflowers are not to be overtaken by the grasses. I had a go at wildflower garden at another property, in West Wales, a couple of years ago, and the first year it was beautiful. Despite cutting it as advised in autumn, the next year it was predominantly buttercupt - magnificently buttercups for several weeks in fact, and by the third year only one or two individual wildflower plants had managed to stand the competition from ranunculus and grasses! Eddy. |
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