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New Year - New Garden. Thoughts Appreciated
Hi all
I posted here a few weeks ago saying I'd got a new garden. Now I'm at the "planning what to do with it" stage and I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice you might have on the following projects: 1. The instant herb garden project. There's a pre-formed fibre glass raised pool with a wooden surround right up by the house (surrounded by wooden deck). I don't want it as a water feature (I have two other ponds - one quite LARGE). I thought I might empty it out, drill holes in the fibre glass, fill with gritty compost and plant with herbs. It's about 5' x 3' and about 2' off the ground. Faces SW and gets reasonable amounts of sun. What do people reckon - will this work or will it get waterlogged? 2. The native hedge project. Deciduous hedge runs up one side of the garden for about twenty five feet. It's about six foot high and has obviously been trimmed with hedge cutters and not much else done to it as it's got very thin in places. Hard to tell what it's made of at the moment, but I reckon it includes hawthorn, berberis and possibly viburnum. Also full of old brambles and rubbish growing through from next door's neglected and overgrown patch. I'd like to thicken it up a bit and try some evergreens to give a bit more privacy at this time of year - any ideas for relatively quick growing - preferably native - plants. I'd like it to stay an "informal" hedge. 3. The anti-magnolia project No, not that kind of magnolia. I like those. The previous owners overdid the "house doctor" bit and have painted the fibreglass edging of the LARGE (20'x 10') pond and the concrete path edging and the terracotta "brick" path edging (ALL over the garden) and even the stones lining the "stream" that feeds the pond, with magnolia paint!!! Judging by the amount they painted in the house I reckon they got onto "autopaint" and just couldn't stop...... I think it's ordinary emulsion, although it looks almost luminous in poor light and is doing the "natural" look of the garden no favours at all - any ideas for removing it? I hope you don't mind multiple questions in one message - I expect I'll think of some more later.......... Seasons Greetings Heather Gardening in Wiltshire, on the side of a hill. -- Spamtrap in operation. To reply to me direct put out the bins. To save yourself the trouble, reply to the Group. |
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