Beautiful garden and it is amazing that you can packed so many plants in a small space Just wondering how many hours maintenance your North facing garden need per week? I have a zone 7b (similar to most UK climate) North facing front yard and trying to have a minimal maintenance garden so I can spend more time on the back veggie garden Some of your plant choices are very fast growing, do they need pruning and trimming often?
Sorry for delayed response but very few hours. At the end of the year once everything has died back at trim it all down before Christmas except for the ferns. In late winter I add a granular feed and lots of compost and then let it all grow for another season. Just needs occasional dead heading and watering in dry conditions.
Lovely ideas for the shady garden, and a useful too about the hodtas. I've started buying turnover bred tetraploid varieties with their thicker leaves, and slowly replacing some of my more slug ravaged plants. It would be great if you could mention some of the things to consider with some other plants too. eg. I had some old fashioned Japanese anemones years ago which slowly took over a border and had to finally resort to glysophate to get rid of them. I am now reintroducing these lovely plants, but keeping to the more modern well behaved (allegedly) clump forming varieties.
Brilliant to hear you’re finding slug resistant Hostas and weirdly my Japanese anemones succumb to some time of root rot this year and I’ve lost about 6 clumps 😥
Beautiful garden and it is amazing that you can packed so many plants in a small space
Just wondering how many hours maintenance your North facing garden need per week? I have a zone 7b (similar to most UK climate) North facing front yard and trying to have a minimal maintenance garden so I can spend more time on the back veggie garden
Some of your plant choices are very fast growing, do they need pruning and trimming often?
Sorry for delayed response but very few hours. At the end of the year once everything has died back at trim it all down before Christmas except for the ferns. In late winter I add a granular feed and lots of compost and then let it all grow for another season. Just needs occasional dead heading and watering in dry conditions.
Very informative and your garden is beautiful! new subscriber here!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Lovely ideas for the shady garden, and a useful too about the hodtas. I've started buying turnover bred tetraploid varieties with their thicker leaves, and slowly replacing some of my more slug ravaged plants. It would be great if you could mention some of the things to consider with some other plants too. eg. I had some old fashioned Japanese anemones years ago which slowly took over a border and had to finally resort to glysophate to get rid of them. I am now reintroducing these lovely plants, but keeping to the more modern well behaved (allegedly) clump forming varieties.
PS. Apologies re predictive text!
Brilliant to hear you’re finding slug resistant Hostas and weirdly my Japanese anemones succumb to some time of root rot this year and I’ve lost about 6 clumps 😥
never tried flox in the shade .... are they really ok on a north aspect?
Do well in the shade as long as not too dry.
just found you, going to have a bit of a binge
Amazing, I won't stop you. Let me know if you have any questions.