Widening my perennial border

Shropshire, United Kingdom

UPDATE- Widening my perennial border. With the help of my lovely gardener, we managed to widen my border. Although the soil looks great, it’s rather compacted. My question is do I need to add any nutrients to soil and dig it over before planting perennials? Hope you all have a lovely Bank holiday weekend.

So I started to dig in the manure, a rather smelly job! Then I positioned the plants, had a bit move around and finally planted them all in. Please to say that only 6 plants out of 23 were shop bought. The rest were all homegrown, self seeded or divided perennials. It looks a bit bare but it will soon fill out. Hope you like it.

3 May, 2024

Answers

Owdboggy

Yes is the short answer. There will have been little nutrition added while the soil was covered in grass, so putting 'muck' in it would help any new planting.

3 May, 2024

Amsterdam

So digging in garden manure? Also digging it up to aerate the soil & get rid of compaction. Guess I’ve got a bit of work to do before planting….

3 May, 2024

Owdboggy

Yep!. Been there doing that. At least you are not finding a very old lime pit under your soil which is what I have done today. Filled 4 compost bags with the old lime. No wonder nothing grows on this patch.
Have fun.

3 May, 2024