Den's Garden Diary: spring garden

Thought it was about time I listed the plants I grow detailing which grew well for me, or not as the case may be, in my Southport rather sandy garden.

My main hobby is bowling, so time is always scarce, sometimes feel I should bowl less and garden more!!.

Like every one here the first thing is to enrich the ground with bone meal and farmyard manure, this has been very much the answer.

As I am retired my first thoughts were shrubs, evergreen when possible and not fast growing, though that severe winter killed 4 well established shrubs including a well established Ceanothus, this last rainy summer the rest all grew like crazy as of course did the weeds.

My first love are Fuchsia and I must admit I grow far too many but they never let me down, I do expect an awful lot from them, flowering from May till late Autumn, I will list the ones that do particularly well on my very sunny patio, (sun what’s that you say).

I grow amongst other plants, Dahlias, the dinner plate variety have been exceptional.

Thanks go to my son Scott for his photography and importantly his help with the heavy work in the garden.

As time permits I will add to and update this file.

Den's Garden Diary

Wednesday 1 May 2019

spring garden

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