It is a long time since I have written about March in the London Garden, but that is going to change. I have said ‘good-bye’ to The Fortnight Garden with some regrets, but many happy memories, and I wish it well. Now I have ideas for developing a colourful oasis in London!
A new bed
I had pots and tubs all over the garden, and it looked crowded, and just untidy. But I want to grow more things! So, I made a new raised bed in the lawn and emptied the tubs into the bed!
It looks unimpressive at the moment, but it is planted with arum lilies, agapanthus, brunnera ‘Jack Frost’, primroses, daffodils, and various other bits and pieces. Now I just have to wait and see what happens.
The fence bed
This bed was invaded by bramble which was poisoned and then dug up. I left the bed alone for a year and it looks neglected, which it was.
But I have plans, and here they are!
I am going to plant evergreen hebes, another miscanthus, and lavenders, and then fill in with aquilegias, knautia madedonica (from The Fortnight Garden!), and lysimachias. And for height there is a philadelphus (not sure how happy it is) and I plan to plant a trachelospermum jasminoides over the fence.
Dining room patch
This hot, dry patch was swamped with grasses. They are still there, but I am going to make some changes. I plan to keep the grasses in this bed, but add verbena bonariensis, lychnis, sedums, euphorbias and perhaps alchemlla mollis. I am also going to plant early flowering tulips.
Other interesting bits and pieces!
The amelanchier is looking lovely! And in this bed I am massing the libertias, primroses, persicaria, brunnera and some ferns.
The fernery may need some serious attention this year, but for the moment I am letting it be!
And I am pleased with the bed under the damson tree; there are ‘things to be done’ but I can see a way through.
And that is the garden at the end of March, at the start of a new adventure for me!