March 4, 2008...12:03 pm
Alpine Garden: Stage 3
That’s it for now! We applied the finishing touches – a couple more bags of alpine mix and some home-mulched bark – so now it’s up to the plants to do their thing. We were considering buying a new azalea to fill in the bottom gap but opted instead for laying down a path of bark as we needed access to the top, something that’s all too easy to forget.
The section to the right has been left bare as we wanted a different view from the drive. Our intention is to plant more daffodil bulbs there although we have planted a couple of ground cover alpines that should provide some interest when the daffs have died down.
Recently, ‘Big Bird’ has been languishing in the rose garden looking lost so we decided to relocate him to a more prominent position. We’ll just have to see how stable his new home is the next time the wind picks up.
Other than that, we’ve done very little practical work in the garden this week apart from erecting a small wire fence at the top of the veg. patch to discourage the dogs from playing chase across it. Our main work has been planning. We reviewed what seeds were left over from last year and have now started a shopping list for our next tour of the garden centres. We’ve also come up with a few ideas as to where we want to relocate some plants. When we first acquired the garden we didn’t have a grand plan as such so it tended to be a case of: ‘Ooh! There’s a bare spot we can see from the kitchen window. Let’s fill it with a hydrangea / rose / lavatera.’ Consequently, we now have several small trees and bushes that no longer fit in with our current plans. I want the flower bed at the edge of the lawn to be restricted to annuals but it currently contains said hydrangea etc. that were bought on impulse. It’s always a bit of a gamble moving established plants but there are other more suitable sites in the garden, and it’s better than discarding a healthy perennial just because it has technically become a weed.
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