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| Planted For The Summer, 9th June 2017 |
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| 4th August 2017 |
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| 4th August 2017 |
The pastel colours in the border at the far end of the quad have faded fast as the autumn progresses indicating to the team that it is time to change the display.
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| Faded, 1st November 2017 |
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| Digging Out The Border |
Cuttings were taken from many of the plants back in September and, apart from keeping a few as stock plants, the remainder are dug up and put on the compost heap. Before the border can be prepared for the winter planting the porous pipe has to be lifted, coiled up and put away in storage.
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| Porous Pipe Lifted and Coiled Up |
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| Adding Leaf Mould |
Once cleared of pipe the border is then weeded, the debris removed, leaf mould forked in and then the soil is levelled.
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| 310 Wallflower 'Sugar Rush Purple' |
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| Planting Wallflowers |
With the border now ready, the 310 wallflowers are brought over from the nursery and placed out in to their position and planted. The chosen variety this year is 'Sugar Rush Purple', a large flowered, sweetly fragrant, purple wallflower that flowers before Christmas, in fact they have already started to flower!
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| 250 Tulips 'Blue Diamond' and 'Ronaldo' |
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| Bulbs Placed Out Ready For Planting |
Once all the wallflowers were in the 250 tulips were placed out amongst them and planted. Two tulips have been chosen this year, Tulip 'Blue Diamond', a large double flower, bluish-purple in colour and Tulip 'Ronaldo', a single flower, dark purple-black in colour.
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| Finished! |
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| Wallflowers and Bulbs |
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