Scaffolding |
For the last four weeks the planting of the last display border, 'The Border in the Corner', has been delayed due to scaffolding in situ for important building maintenance and repair.
Border Beneath The Scaffolding |
24th May, 300 Plants Repotted |
19th June, Ready To Be Planted |
A Collection Sheet For Hedge Trimmimgs |
Having been advised that the scaffolding would be dismanteled this morning, the five box balls in the border were trimmed using a hedge trimmer. To capture the trimmings as they fell a sheet was placed around the neck of the ball , this causes less mess on the surrounding soil and makes it easier to tidy by carefully collecting up the sheet with its contents still inside.
Five Box Balls Trimmed |
By half past eight this morning the scaffolders had dismantled and removed the scaffolding so, with the area now clear, the gardening team focused their attention on preparing the border for planting. Weeded, forked through, a layer of leaf mould mulch spread on top of the soil, forked in, levelled, trodden down to removed air pockets, levelled again and finally a porous pipe layed along the soil's surface, the border was ready for planting by late morning.
Planting The Border |
The plants that had been waiting in the nursery were brought to the border, placed out, planted and watered in by the end of the day.
The plants used for this year's summer display are: Cleome spinosa ‘Violet Queen’, Salvia fabrinacea ‘Victoria’,Verbena rigida, Scabiosa atropurpurea ‘Black Knight’, Amaranthus dubius ‘Red Army’, Nicotiana langsdorffii, Didiscus caeruleus ‘Lace Mixture’, Ammi visagna, Moluccella
laevis, Pennisetum
glaucum ‘Purple Baron', Zinnia elegans ‘Benary’s Giant Wine’,
‘Benary’s Giant Lime’, ‘Luminosa’, ‘Lilliput Orange’, ‘Zinderella Purple’,
‘Lilliput Purple’, ‘Super Yoga Orange’, ‘Purple Prince’ and Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Pied Piper Red’,
‘Double Click Rose Bonbon’, ‘Sonata Carmine’, ‘Sonata White’, ‘Sonata Mixed’,
‘Rubenza’, ‘Double Click Cranberries’.
Planted For The Summer |
'The Border in the Corner' |
17th May, Removing The Tired Wallflowers and Tulips |
Whilst the 300 plants for the corner border have been waiting in the nursery the display border at the far end of the quad and the oak planter display in the Besse Cortyard have both been planted up for their summer displays.
The quad border was planted first, the plants for this year's summer display are:
The structure is provided by the permanent
planting, the perennials, shrubs and grass:
Hemerocallis
'Catherine Woodbery';
Artemisia 'Powis Castle'; Zantedeschia aethiopica 'Crowborough'; Rosa
chinensis 'Mutabilis'; Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'; Hydrangea
paniculata 'Pinky Winky'; Alchemilla mollis; Kirengeshoma palmata; Staphylea
colchica (Bladdernut); Indigofera gerardiana and Miscanthus
sinensis 'Morning Light'.
The other plants grown from seed and cuttings:
Grown from seed
Antirrhinum
majus 'Lipstick Silver'; Cleome spinosa 'Violet Queen'; Salpiglossis sinuata
'Black Trumpets'; Nicotiana x hybrida 'Whispers Mixed', Antirrhinum majus
'Lucky Lips', Ammi visnaga, Nicotiana alata ‘Crimson Bedder’,
Gypsophila elegans ‘Kermesina’, Daucus carota ‘Dara’, Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sonata
Carmine’, Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sonata Mixed’, Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sonata White’
Grown from cuttings
Pelargonium'Clorinda',
Plectranthus argentatus 'Silver Shield', Salvia 'Penny's Smile', Diascia
personata, Pelargonium denticulatum 'Filicifolia', Pelargonium cordifolium
rubrocinctum, Pelargonium papilionaceus, Plectranthus ciliatus
'Nico'
17th May, Planting The Summer Bedding Plants |
22nd May, Besse Oak Planters, Winter Wallflowers, Tulips and Evergreens |
Clearing The Winter/Spring Plant Display |
Empty and Waiting For The Summer Bedding Plants |
22nd May, Planted For The Summer Display |
Once the quad border had been planted the planter display in the Besse Courtyard was changed from its winter display to summer, the plants in the seven containers are:
Pot 1 - Plectranthus coleoides variegata, Pelargonium denticulatum
'Filicifolia', Pelargonium tomentosum, Cyphomandra corymbiflora, Antirrhinum
majus 'Lipstick Silver', Brachycome ‘Purple Splendour’, Salvia leucantha.
Pot 2 - Cyphomandra corymbiflora, Salvia leucantha, Antirrhinum majus 'Lipstick Silver', Verbena
'Aztec Plum Magic', Petunia ‘Purple Velvet’ F1 Hybrid.
Pot 3 -
Plectranthus coleoides variegata, Verbena 'Aztec Plum Magic', Brachycome ‘Purple Splendour’, Petunia ‘Purple Velvet’ F1 Hybrid,
Pennisetum glaucum ‘Purple Baron', Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Pied Piper Red’, Tibouchina urvilleana, Anisodontea capensis
‘El Rayo’, Lobelia ‘Rainbow Cascade Mixed’, A Dark Grass from Cotswold Wildlife Park (Name unknown).
Pot 4 - Albizia julibrissin ‘Chocolate
Summer’, Pennisetum glaucum 'Purple
Baron', Anisodontea capensis ‘El Rayo’, Verbena 'Aztec Plum Magic', Pelargonium
Ivy Leaf 'Supreme Burgandy', Cuphea ‘Grape Wrath’, Pelargonium surcouf, Chlorophytum
comosum.
Pot 5 - Albizia julibrissin ‘Chocolate
Summer’, Anisodontea capensis ‘El
Rayo’, Pennisetum glaucum ‘Purple Baron', Pelargonium denticulatum
'Filicifolia', Verbena 'Aztec Plum
Magic', Pelargonium Ivy Leaf 'Supreme Burgandy', Cuphea ‘Grape Wrath’, Pelargonium surcouf, chlorophytum comosum.
Pot 6 - Albizia julibrissin ‘Chocolate
Summer’, Anisodontea capensis ‘El
Rayo’, Pennisetum glaucum ‘Purple Baron', Pelargonium denticulatum
'Filicifolia', Pelargonium Ivy Leaf 'Supreme Burgandy', Petunia ‘Purple Velvet’
F1 Hybrid, Pelargonium ‘Royal Oak’, Pelargonium
surcouf, Chlorophytum comosum.
Pot 7 - Cyphomandra
corymbiflora, Pelargonium tomentosum, Verbena 'Aztec Plum Magic', Antirrhinum
majus 'Lipstick Silver', Chlorophytum comosum, Lobelia ‘Rainbow Cascade Mixed’.
20th June, A Month Has Past and Growing Fast |
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