A busy morning in the Garden House combining our regular Friday gardening activities with a charity coffee morning for Macmillan Nurses.
We managed a quick round of favourite trees which included:
Weeping pear - Pyrus salicifolia Pendula and Judas tree - Cercis siliquastrum, Tulip tree, Acer, Rowan, Monkey puzzle, Oak, Silver Birch, Horse Chestnut, Amelanchia, Copper Beech, Indian Chestnut, Sambucus.....
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| Judas tree |
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| Amelanchia lamarckii |
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| Weeping pear |
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| Leaves of Tulip tree |
We looked at plants that are good in the garden now, particularly Asters and Heleniums which can be combined well with grasses such as Miscanthus nepalensis which has blooms of drooping flowerheads. There are many types of Miscanthus but they all have a white stripe down the middle of the leaf. They like lots of mulch and should be cut back in Feb/ March ( although be careful not to cut the new emerging growth). Heleniums are a genus of about 40 species in Asteraceae family, they are hardy perennials and can flower from June through to Nov. Good plants for shady sites are Japanese anemones and we looked at a lovely semi double white - Anemone x hybrida 'Geante des Blanche'. They do need to be watered in well and root cuttings can be taken now from established plants.
Activities in the garden this week
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| Welcome back Ann |
- Sowing winter salad seeds - in the greenhouse in gutters and outside under cloches
- Mosaicing a step outside the greenhouse
- Cutting back Lychnis and Onopordum
- Pulling up Honesty plants, keeping the papery heads and collecting seeds
- Digging up onions, earthing up leeks to keep them white
- Cutting back box hedge on herb bed and pulling out some more Rosemary
- Sowing more hardy annual seeds - including Cerinthe and Dill
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| Ally & Catherine collecting Honesty |
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| Sara & Vicky completing the new Mosaic |
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| Deborah organising the coffee morning |
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| Susan on plant sales |
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| Remember bulb orders need to be in next week! |
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