North Durham Garden

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Hi I haven’t posted for a while but work has been progressing over the past couple of years- slowly getting the garden organised. Using the bare bones to build upon.
Not sure I’m doing this correctly but the next two photos are of our woodland slope, which I am only trimming as the frogs from the pond and smaller birds use this area for feeding and breeding!

The next is a bed created by filling in a few years ago one of the ponds- looks okay but in desperate need of being weeded!

This one is of my “long border” approx. 36 feet by 5 feet I have planted a Hawthorn Hedge at the back of this to hide the fencing and provide a backdrop to the border- a 5-7 year project to get it to six feet high!

This bed is 15×3 feet planned to be a lavender bed as we pass it going to the main back garden.

This bed is by the back door- the Crown Imperials were a bargain at a local nursery as they were nearly finished flowering- hard work making sure that they were planted deeply enough!

Lavender for the border.

Adding lots of grit for drainage.

3 Floribunda Roses “Arthur Bell” for extra height and spacing out the lavender.

Bed planted- just waiting for it all to grow now.

Plants for elsewhere in the garden!

And a few more!

“Long Border” weeded

Part of border by the house between box balls.

Hedge in, plants in still got space- trying to plant perennials to cut down work and cost in the future!

I’ll try to post more pictures more frequently as it grows and develops- we’ve spent lots of time and effort to develop the slopes which doesn’t really show up when you look at it, also work interferes with the gardening!

• 4 May, 2017
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