Garden gets autumn review
We’ve wondered for a while about the small unused plot of grass beside the garage at The Larches. Now it’s been given a new lease of life as a raised vegetable plot, adjoining the recently planted Himalayan rowan tree (The top photo shows the box in the process of construction). Two inch thick tanalised timbers to a depth of 18 inches should give it a long life and plans are afoot on the planting front.
Note also the pile of stones in the second photo. Rescued from an old building undergoing renovation, they’ll come in handy with a fellside rockery we’re designing for 2010. This will be on the left of the flight of steps leading from the Breakfast terrace up to the Belvedere. We plan to clear the ground of any bracken first. Let us know if you have ideas of particular alpine plants you’d like to see there.
This summer’s been warm – and wet at times – so plants and trees have grown rapidly. That’s not so good with the bracken which always needs pulling and cutting back, but the grass of the new south lawn (see photo opposite) has had a great start.
With the new containing walls, acer tree and seat it’s already looking like it’s been there for years!
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