August #3 South East facing corner

It looks so full and as if it had been there much longer than it has!

Thanks Rose…still loads of colour to come from Cosmos and some perennials.

It will be interesting to see your garden in few years Karen. it will become an atrium of huge variety of plants.

I’m hoping it will become a sanctuary of small trees and beautiful all year around shrubs Klahanie! Thank you x

And birds! I’d love it to be full of birds!

Karen, I recently re-joined the RHS and submitted a question about our Malus 'Evereste' as it seems to be growing so very slowly. It was planted in 2021, fruits well, just doesn't grow skywards!

I have had a very comprehensive reply, only took 24 hours, and now need to remove the plants around it, give it a feed and a mulch. Also, keep it well watered!

It looks so smart Karen, really attractive.

I hope it all comes close to your vision. When we first moved here, 8 years ago, we took out about 6 fruit trees which had been plonked right on the fenceline of our garden by the developers. (Why do they do that? Not everyone wants to share their neighbours' trees!) They were stunted and planted in rubbly grot, but I still felt guilty about removing them. However they have been replaced and added to, but not all are thriving even so.

Lovely areas in your garden.

Thank all. Shirley, I am grateful for that advice. Mine in Scotland was very slow as well, but there was that issue there with the thin soil over sand.

Ange, you will have noticed that I have planted my trees in the border a metre from the fence to avoid the leaves falling into next door. Besides which, I want to be close to them. The majority are on very dwarf rooting stock. The birches are the smaller varieties too. And many will stay in pots. Our developer has planted three Romans right up agains our fence line on the south side, so we’ll see how much light we lose. But for now I am loving them! They may not even survive because the soil is so compacted there, and full of concrete.