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Gardening Enthusiast and Horticulturalist

    Category: tree planting

    02/10/2020 evergreen plants / flowering plants / foliage / gardening / grasses / mixed border / new plants / plant design / tree planting

    September 2020: Autumnal planting

    We dug over and planted into the bed which sits next to the new drive. As the space will be used to park the car, we choose to plant a grass that will fill out and create a nice green edge to the space, but won’t mind being stepped on from time to time. We used Hakonechloa ‘macra‘. This type

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    22/09/2020 ferns / flowering plants / foliage / plant design / tree planting / trees

    August 2020: New planting beds

    As I mentioned in last months post, we now have 4 new planting beds at our disposal and this month we  planted into 2 of these new spaces. For both beds we included shrubs for height and structure, as well as mid height and ground covering plants. We selected plants for their contrasting/complimentary foliage colours and textures and also thought

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    21/04/2020 ferns / grasses / hostas / pear tree / silver birch / tree planting / trees

    March 2020: Spring planting

    In last month’s post I talked about how we prepared a large new planting bed. In March we planted 2 trees into this space and they’ve instantly provided height and impact. Since we’ve already planted 3 multi stem silver birch in the garden (Betula utilis var. jacquemontii), we thought it would be effective to plant a single stem cultivar called

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    Recent Posts

    • October – December 2020: Bare root hedging and bulb planting
    • September 2020: Autumnal planting
    • August 2020: New planting beds
    • July 2020: Hard Landscaping
    • June 2020: Midsummer in the garden
    • May 2020: Nesting birds and spring flowers
    • April 2020: Spring flowers
    • March 2020: Spring planting
    • February 2020: Preparing a new planting bed
    • January 2020: Structural planting
    • December 2019: Planting a multi-stem cherry tree and reflections on 2019
    • November 2019: Planting bare root crab apple trees
    • September & October 2019: Late summer flowers and planting for spring 2020
    • August 2019: Creating the ponds and oak sleeper bench
    • July 2019: Laying the bound gravel paths and steel edging
    • June 2019: Building the retaining post wall
    • May 2019: Digging out the paths
    • April 2019: We finished the wall
    • March 2019: Spring in the garden
    • February 2019: First flowers, snow and heatwaves
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