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Happibun's 1. Formal Front garden

Garden Type: Formal | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Loam I'm Organic!

Welcome to my front garden. My house faces East, and so this garden gets sun only for a couple of hours in the morning. Even then, the plants at the southern end have to be shade loving, because they get no direct sun at all, due to the permanent shade from our next door neighbour’s wall.

Actually it is tiny, no more than a glorified window box really. When we moved in 10 years ago, the whole of it was laid out as gravel. I seem to remember that I set to to change that within the first few weeks, certainly before I attacked the back garden.

I removed the gravel, took out the impervious membrane, and then laid down a porous one which I cut holes in just larger than the beds that are laid out now.

I marked out the beds by laying bricks down loose around the edges, then relaid gravel over the ‘paths’ between the beds.

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Plantings

Yelow Orental Lillies

Lilium

Sown on 01 Oct 08 Damn, I thought I had logged these when I plant...
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Red cyclamen

Cyclamen persicum

Planting Out on 25 Sep 08 I'm going cyclamen bonkers. I have decided ...
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Red Robin - Herb Robert

Geranium robertianum

Established on 16 Jun 08 This is a new one to me :-) I have found a v...
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Red californian poppy

Eschscholzia californica

Sown on 02 Jun 08 More Californian poppy goodness :-) This tim...
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Californian poppy

Eschscholzia californica

Sown on 30 May 08 I sprinkled about 100 seeds in to the right han...
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Narcisistic Daffodils

Narcissus

Sown in 2005 I was given a couple of pots of these dwarf daf...
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Orphaned Honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum

Transplanted in 1999 Lonicera pericyclamen 'Graham Thomas' This w...
- 6 journals
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purple crocii

Crocus tommasinianus

Sown in 1999 I'm sort of guessing that this is Crocus tomasi...
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Creeping Jenny

Lysimachia nummularia

Sown in 1999 These plants root at each leaf node so these pl...
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Common (and somewhat vulgar) Hyacinth 'Pink Pearl'

Hyacinthus orientalis

Sown in 1998 I don't know for sure if this is Pink Pearl, bu...
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Utterly bonkers and vigorous Virginia Creeper

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Sown in 1998 I both love and hate this plant in equal measur...
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Straggly bits of Lavender

Lavandula angustifolia

Sown in 1998 I planted lavender in the front garden in the f...
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Invasive Grape hyacinths

Muscari armeniacum

Sown in 1998
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Sulking Ivy

Hedera helix

Sown in 1997
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Hardy and Persistent Columbine

Aquilegia

Sown in 1997 I can not say for sure whether I first sowed aq...
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Mallow kind of thing

Malva moschata

I really love this plant. I'm not sure what it ...
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Sweet Violet

Viola odorata
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- Very Happy