At last, after weeks of being so busy, things seem to be finally settling down. Wev'e been very busy in the garden of late. We spent a couple of weeks completely renovating the long border; lifting all the plants we had, cleaning the soil of perennial weeds, then respacing the plants together with the large collection of new wildflowers we'd grown this year. So we now have a much bigger variety of plants now including; viper's bugloss, garlic mustard, betony, and masses of foxgloves busy creating new roots for flowering next year.
Wev'e also decided to completely redo the meadow. As I suspected, the soil there is very rich and not condusive for growing meadow flowers. The grasses simply take over. So wev'e begun to strip away the old turf, and over the winter we'll work it as much as we can removing any lingering weed roots. When that's done we'll reduce the fertility of the soil by adding lots of sand. So by next spring it'll hopefully be ready for sowing with a wild grasses and meadow flower mix.
With the approach of winter, things are quieting down now in the garden. Right up until the beginning of this month though, the flowering ivy was alive with bees, red admirals and comma butterflies. No peacocks sadly.
Wev'e also decided to completely redo the meadow. As I suspected, the soil there is very rich and not condusive for growing meadow flowers. The grasses simply take over. So wev'e begun to strip away the old turf, and over the winter we'll work it as much as we can removing any lingering weed roots. When that's done we'll reduce the fertility of the soil by adding lots of sand. So by next spring it'll hopefully be ready for sowing with a wild grasses and meadow flower mix.
With the approach of winter, things are quieting down now in the garden. Right up until the beginning of this month though, the flowering ivy was alive with bees, red admirals and comma butterflies. No peacocks sadly.
Suesie planting forget-me-nots!