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This patch appears to have been abandoned and I'd love to turn it into a wild flower patch.
Is the fence/ workshop/tree going to cause issues if i seed that area?
Some sun gets through but its obviously not in full sun
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This patch appears to have been abandoned and I'd love to turn it into a wild flower patch.
Is the fence/ workshop/tree going to cause issues if i seed that area?
Some sun gets through but its obviously not in full sun -
It looks like someone's trying hard to stop weeds growing there,with the weed fabric & fence like that. When you say appears to be abandoned,it's still owned by somebody who might want it like that ready for when they return?
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Sorry, This will be my garden in June. I should have said!
The rest of the garden is in a well kept state hence my abandoned remarkComment
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I thought you'd found the land somewhere random lol! If it's your garden then its a good idea!!
Location : EssexComment
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What time of day was the photo taken?Comment
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most wild flowers don't like rich soil so that looks OK and you can always plant it as a "woodland edge" garden, with Blubells ( please buy proper native ones not the spanish ones that are hybridising with english bluebells and killing them off slowly), anemones, foxgloves ( available in all sorts of colours) ferns, and even a wildlife pond ... most important... few log piles and away you go ... Honeysuckle would go well there too Feet in the shade head in the sun... Oh and Ivy - good for late nectar for bees
Get hold of Chris Baines book (Planning a wildlife garden I think it is) excellent advicentg
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That area looks really private so for me it would be something like this:
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Native Bluebells have slender leaves with flower mainly to one side of the stem and the anthers are cream, Spanish have broad leaves and flower all round the stem with blue anthers.
Native bluebells also have a drooping appearenceComment
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Spanish bluebells look like weedy hyacinths and are pale blue white and pink they spread like mad. Native ones are delicate with bells that droop and are only deep blue.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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But what makes it more of a problem, is that they cross pollinate ending up with a half and half plant.Originally posted by Greenleaves View PostComment
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the other side of the fence (pallets) is the compost heap or dumping ground, I cant really tell yet, so I will need to access it hence the thought of a mini wild meadow with a mown path to it.
This has me thinking though...Comment
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Some Bocking 14 comfry would be nice for the bees and a great source of plant feed or compost.Comment
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Bit of an update on this.
As can be seen I have had a bit of a tidy up, including cladding my shed with feather edge and getting rid of the pallets for a gate and bit of fence
gave it a bit of a rotivate
And this is where I'm at now
My plan is to leave alone for a while and see what pokes its head up weedwise and then spread some seed down next month as per the instructions.
I'm guessing I'll need to net the whole area ??Comment
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