A Spring Border Of Orange And Yellow

21st June 2018

The delay in the planting of the 'Border in the Corner', see blog entry 21st June 'Changing The Border And Container Displays For Summer 2018', means that after only 16 weeks it is already time for it to be changed as the winter fast approaches.

31st August 2018

Salvia fabrinacea ‘Victoria’

Cleome, Zinnia, Cosmos, Pennisetum and Amaranthus

Removing the summer display

To make way for this year's winter-spring plants all of the summer annuals were dug up and taken to the compost heap but not before the best of the flowers were cut for use as cut flowers. The porous pipe that had kept everything watered during the hot summer was lifted from the soil, curled up and put away in to storage.

Cut flowers

Forked through

Clearing all the plant debris from the soil the border is prepared for planting. Forked through and weeded the soil is trodden down to removed air pockets and then levelled.

Trodden down to removed air pockets

Placing out

The plants that will create the winter-spring display were placed out onto the soil, 80 Wallflower 'Sunset Primrose' and 230 Primula 'Husky Mixed Daffodil', and planted. Bulbs were then placed out and planted in amongst the plants, a mix of daffodil, 30 of Narcissus jonquilla 'Lieke', 'Martinette', 'Pipit', 'Sweetness' and 'Beautiful Eyes' (150 bulbs) and 30 Fritillaria Imperialis 'Aurora'. In addition to the biennials and bulbs, shrubs were also planted for structure, 5 Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Tom Thumb' were planted.

Planting up

Narcissus jonquilla 'Lieke', 'Martinette', 'Pipit', 'Sweetness' and 'Beautiful Eyes'

Fritillaria imperialis 'Aurora' (Orange flowers)

The colour scheme for the border is based on the border the team created for the winter-spring 2016/17, see picture below, but rather than using wallflowers and tulips the orange and yellows will be provided by the primula, wallflower, narcissus and fritillaria.

April 2017

Once all the wallflowers and bulbs had been planted the soil was gently forked to break up the compaction made by the gardeners treading on the soil, then the border was given a thorough water.

Watering in