Thursday, 13 December 2018

Meanwhile, further east...

The grass-and-daisy-and-fruit borders...

...in concept design in February...











...in April when the fruit fence was first installed and fitted with apples...

You can hardly see the grasses hiding behind the osteospermum in the foreground












In June with the everything starting to grow on...



...but then I was away rather a lot so there are no pics of it with osteospermums, anthemis, zinnias etc flowering away like billy-oh until...

...Late October when we were well into Michaelmas daisy season.  The largest grasses are the splendid miscanthus sinensis Malepartus (far end of near bed) and stipa gigantea (closer to house).  Miscanthus nepalensis is the one to the left of the daisy with weeping flowerheads - said to be less hardy but spectacularly elegant in huge clumps down at Hilliers so we're giving them a go.  They've certainly suffered in the very sharp frosts in November - we'll see if they make it through.
And yes, the wiggly wires WILL be replaced during the winter.

2 comments:

  1. Lovely to see what you have been growing. Your garden looks super .

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  2. That was me, Holly, commenting.

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