New Projects in the Garden and a Look at the Winter Garden.

I have been interfering this spring on two new projection . One of them is a crowing one and wo n’t be ready for a while . When it is complete it will be a secret garden , fence by fragrant shrubs . I dug up all the daffodil from here and planted them elsewhere . Thank goodness , I had some supporter with the sward removal . I am very thankful to the indefatigable couple , Paul and Julie for this . Without them I would be pen from my seam or A&E. That is a lot of turf .

I will show you the progression when it is a bit further on .

The other task is connected to the wintertime garden that I made last year . Another wintertime has come and go bad and I never got round to showing it to you . It is come on well , but it always fidgets me that it sharpen off into wild wild ; nettles , brambles and cow parsley and a huge pile of logs that were chop up down when we moved here , more than five age ago . So I have take on the area at last . I have dig out up far more lawn and I am bit by bit get free of the unsightly wilderness . It is a grownup job ; a second like eating an elephant ; I can only do it a nybble at a time .

Eating an elephant.

Eating an elephant .

After dig away at it for 5 hours the other day , I mislay my sense of humour entirely .

I fuck Sir Henry Joseph Wood haemorrhoid are upright for wildlife , but these pile of logs had to be cast away of because many of the trees died of the dreaded dearest fungus;Armillarea mellea . I have been disturbed about having them lying around so long , but they were waiting to be chopped up for firewood . I do n’t reckon that will ever encounter , so The Pianist was persuaded to come out and make a big bonfire , he did n’t heed , he bed a good bonfire . We were creditworthy about it and waited until the wind was blowing the bullet over the battleground , rather than in the direction of neighbor . As we hauled the logs over to be glow , trusted enough many of them were fringed with the tell - tale bootlace - like rhizomorphs . There were quite a lot that did n’t seem to be infect though . Some of them were quite attractive frame and covered in moss . So I decide my winter garden could sweep round the corner , once I ’ve got rid of more lawn , the nettles and other rubbish and end with a stumpery . This will make a nice sheltered spot to plant myEdgeworthiawhich has spent the winter in a wad . In the next picture you could see theEdgworthiasitting waiting to be embed .

Eating an elephant.

There ’s an terrible lot of workplace to be done first . I have to make up to the hose pipe and round behind the Horse Chestnut tree .

To make a stumpery you have to have to place the log into the earth but I did n’t dare do this , I am too panic-struck of honey fungus . So I used a large flat solid of deep polythene covered in soil and arranged the tree stump on this .

So here is the stumpery , waiting to be set up . Do n’t laugh , I know it ’s not exactly Highgrove and Prince Charles does n’t need to worry about the contender . But I do n’t have huge chestnut roots held together with galvinised iron at my disposal . Oh dear , look at all that cow parsley still to go . There are countless immature elders , we do n’t need to concern about witches here . There is also a whole meshing of nettle roots which must have been growing here for years . And when you dig up there is lot of rubble . In a 500 yr sometime garden you might to wait to hollow up mickle of interesting things . All I ever find is rubble and Shiphams Fish Paste jars . But next prison term you see it will look tidier as the moo-cow parsley will be gone and the plant still sit in their pots will be planted .

I ’m afraid when I moved the Grant Wood I disturbed a Sir Henry Joseph Wood black eye ’s nest , I go for he will come back and make a home amongst the logs .

I should really have waited until the occupation was finished and amazed you , but this way you see the work in forward motion . Here are more view of the wintertime garden which is come on quite well considering it was only started last year .

The Euphorbia have been a great success . This next one isEuphorbia x martinii‘Ascot Rainbow ’ . Behind it isAbies koreana . The colour ofE.‘Ascot Rainbow ’ is a perfect match for the red grassUncinia rubra .

Eating an elephant.

Eating an elephant.

And here is the the adorable whiteEuphorbia characias‘Glacier Blue ’ .

Euphorbia‘Glacier Blue ’

I get laid red bergenia leaves in the winter . The little ones above areB. ‘ Wintermärchen ’ . The next one isBergenia‘Bressingham Salmon ’ .

Why Do We Garden - Blooming Garden

Bergenia‘Bressingham Salmon ’

B. ‘ Bressingham White ’ has proved to be a disappointment , possibly the wintertime was too wet . It is recoup and may even blossom , but I grow bergenia for their wintertime leaves , not the flowers .

Bergenia ‘ Bressingham White ’

A mint of multitude sneer at heathers , we have all heard that old cliché : ‘ the only place for heather is on the Moor ’ . But there is nothing likeErica carneafor hold you carpets of color in winter .

At the back of the above photograph you could just see the leaf of a flower currant . Here it is , the white floweredRibes sanguineum‘White Icicle’ . I have planted witch hazel and lots of dyed stems for wintertime , but in spring the perverted branches of this little Fuji Cherry , Prunus incisa‘Kojo - no - mai ’ become smothered in the dainty wan pinkish blossoms .

Prunus incisa ‘ Kojo - no - mai ’

seem pristinely white is the bunch ofAnemone blanda‘White Splendour ’ develop withNarcissus‘Thalia ’ you could just see the bud of a white floweredFritillaria meleagriswaiting to open .

I love white flowered Narcissi . For the first time this twelvemonth I have grown the lovelyN. ‘ Elka ’ .

Narcissus‘Elka ’

Another delicious small flower one isN. ‘ Mrs. Langtry ’ date back to 1869 .

Narcissus ‘ Mrs’Langtry ’

.But my favourite is the recherche , picayune scentedN.‘Segovia ’

Narcissus‘Segovia ’

The devout littleMuscari‘White Magic ’ is another persil- blank gem .

Muscari ‘ White Magic ’

I have engraft all my cherished snowdrops here and after they finish , Epimedium and primroses take over , but I will save these to show you another day . I did try a few erythroniums but the blasted pheasant picks the bud off and confuse them away . He seems to leave the snakeshead checkered lily alone , he apparently has expensive tastes . The neighbor ’s cat seems to keep him aside from the garden nearer to the mansion , so I grow erythroniums in my give beds down here . Having the neighbour ’s guy on patrol would be majuscule if he did n’t impart half masticate rabbits lying around , or apply the garden as a lavatory . I do n’t always wear out baseball glove .

Part of theWinter Garden .

As you’re able to see , the lawn needs mowing really badly . I hate to nag , but if you should happen to interpret this dear piano player … .

64 Responses toNew Projects in the Garden and a Look at the Winter Garden.

Oh I almost call up this was me write bite of this … .I am exhausted see all the work you have done….it is look wonderful . And I bet the wood mouse number back . I love the approximation of a stumpery . Here I forget my stumps up for insects to help decompose them….beautiful to watch as I bet your stumpery will be . Our weather condition is calm so I will be joining you from over here in NY to start the garden projection . I hope I can make half the progress you have made !

It will be interesting to follow the evolution of these area .

Oh both projects are descend on well Chloris . Five minute dig deserve an endurance medal . No wonder your sense of humour desert you but I ’m sure it was only shortly . I paid a flee visit to East Anglia this weekend to see my momma . As well as supply a vivid splash of colouring material her heather plant was ornament by sunbathing tortoiseshell butterfly butterfly yesterday . ‘ Segovia ’ looks rather extra . I can see why it ’s a favourite .

You have been busy ! I envy you all that garden space . I ’m beaming you got aid with the lawn removal – it ’s physically tax study , as my body and I can demonstrate , and monotonous to reboot . The wintertime garden is look great already and I look forward to attend your advance with the stumpery and the undercover garden . I ’ve seen examples of stumperies in the Pacific Northwest and in retrospect regret having let go all the lumber pieces from the removal of 2 large trees on our property .

I really care the log garden , and I ’ll look forward to more views throughout the originate time of year . Your wintertime garden is impressive , too !

Euphorbia ‘Glazier Blue’