Front garden looks lovely. I used to hate ferns and hostas and now I love them thanks to @laetitiamaklouf and her Five Minute Garden. I’ve got the typical new build garden where the bit against the house only gets early AM sun. I also loved Jo’s shady bed from the Glasshouse garden; 3 types of fern, a hosta and a grass. It’s so lovely and incredibly elegant. You could try the Fuchsia Hawkshead there too? Mine grows in shade.
Funnily enough it was while I was standing *IN* Jo's Chelsea garden that I wondered if I could learn to love ferns. And 'Hawkshead' is already in there, it is just growing v v slowly - and zero buds as yet!
I have an entire long bed like that, beside a path. Full, dry shade, alongside a fence, with an overhanging akebia above. I’ve gone hellebores, epimediums, hostas and ferns and a pink geranium that’s a bit ‘basic bitch’ can survive anywhere, BUT ALSO wild garlic, bluebells, red campion and cow parsley for spring, and some lords and ladies (the variegated kind) have popped up too. Best I can manage and better than bare soil :-/
Totally. I guess not every part of a garden is exciting. And to be absolutely fair to it, there is still the fuchsia 'Hawkshead' and hydrangea 'Pinkachu' to come - they're just coming v v slowly. I should have stuck a bunch of erigeron in it so that it was at least contributing something at this time of year. But come the winter, it has holly and sarcacocca and hellebores to give, which will be something.
That's such a clever idea for a podcast. Lovely climbing rose. Also I misread thought your baby brother was called Busby, which you have to admit would be a marvellous name.
If you aren’t fond of ferns and hostas, have you considered something with big juicy leaves like Rodgersia or astilboides tabularis? That might make a nice contrast.
I put a water feature and grow some marginal irises and other strange variegated things in it
They sit in pots to their required depths which I have to keep on a record as I forget. They come out in winter and pots of holly go in their place. Epidermis are nice for two months in spring tedious otherwise
Ferns are beautiful by the way I bought seven different ones and stole a hart’s tongue from my friends walk to put on a north facing wall behind the dread shady spots
I have saved this for all the plant and flower names, I’m still filling a lot of gaps, thanks for the inspiration.
I have a bank of a lot of ferns, with some geraniums and a fuscia weirdly mixed in, and I actually really like them after hating them for about two years!
Front garden looks lovely. I used to hate ferns and hostas and now I love them thanks to @laetitiamaklouf and her Five Minute Garden. I’ve got the typical new build garden where the bit against the house only gets early AM sun. I also loved Jo’s shady bed from the Glasshouse garden; 3 types of fern, a hosta and a grass. It’s so lovely and incredibly elegant. You could try the Fuchsia Hawkshead there too? Mine grows in shade.
Funnily enough it was while I was standing *IN* Jo's Chelsea garden that I wondered if I could learn to love ferns. And 'Hawkshead' is already in there, it is just growing v v slowly - and zero buds as yet!
Honestly, I hated them, just give it time!
Epimediums for the shady bed? Hellebores?
Both are in there, I just… eurgh.
I have an entire long bed like that, beside a path. Full, dry shade, alongside a fence, with an overhanging akebia above. I’ve gone hellebores, epimediums, hostas and ferns and a pink geranium that’s a bit ‘basic bitch’ can survive anywhere, BUT ALSO wild garlic, bluebells, red campion and cow parsley for spring, and some lords and ladies (the variegated kind) have popped up too. Best I can manage and better than bare soil :-/
Totally. I guess not every part of a garden is exciting. And to be absolutely fair to it, there is still the fuchsia 'Hawkshead' and hydrangea 'Pinkachu' to come - they're just coming v v slowly. I should have stuck a bunch of erigeron in it so that it was at least contributing something at this time of year. But come the winter, it has holly and sarcacocca and hellebores to give, which will be something.
Erigeron’s a good idea – though it’s self-seeded all over my garden BAR that bed. Sigh
😂😂 for gods SAKE shady bed!!
That's such a clever idea for a podcast. Lovely climbing rose. Also I misread thought your baby brother was called Busby, which you have to admit would be a marvellous name.
If you aren’t fond of ferns and hostas, have you considered something with big juicy leaves like Rodgersia or astilboides tabularis? That might make a nice contrast.
I put a water feature and grow some marginal irises and other strange variegated things in it
They sit in pots to their required depths which I have to keep on a record as I forget. They come out in winter and pots of holly go in their place. Epidermis are nice for two months in spring tedious otherwise
Ferns are beautiful by the way I bought seven different ones and stole a hart’s tongue from my friends walk to put on a north facing wall behind the dread shady spots
I have saved this for all the plant and flower names, I’m still filling a lot of gaps, thanks for the inspiration.
I have a bank of a lot of ferns, with some geraniums and a fuscia weirdly mixed in, and I actually really like them after hating them for about two years!
Can’t wait to listen to the first episode of Voicenotes ❤️