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Happibun

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.

Photos

Plantings

  • Yelow Orental Lillies

    Yelow Orental Lillies

    Lilium

    Sown on 30 Sep 08 Damn, I thought I had logged these when I plant...

    • 1 journals
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    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Red cyclamen

    Red cyclamen

    Cyclamen persicum

    Planting Out on 24 Sep 08 I'm going cyclamen bonkers. I have decided ...

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Red Robin - Herb Robert

    Red Robin - Herb Robert

    Geranium robertianum

    Established on 15 Jun 08 This is a new one to me :-) I have found a v...

    • 0 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 1 comments
    • Happy

  • Red californian poppy

    Red californian poppy

    Eschscholzia californica

    Sown on 01 Jun 08 More Californian poppy goodness :-) This tim...

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Californian poppy

    Californian poppy

    Eschscholzia californica

    Sown on 29 May 08 I sprinkled about 100 seeds in to the right han...

    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Neutral

  • Narcisistic Daffodils

    Narcisistic Daffodils

    Narcissus

    Sown in 2004 I was given a couple of pots of these dwarf daf...

    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Orphaned Honeysuckle

    Orphaned Honeysuckle

    Lonicera periclymenum

    Transplanted in 1998 Lonicera pericyclamen 'Graham Thomas' This w...

    • 6 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 1 comments
    • Very Happy

  • purple crocii

    purple crocii

    Crocus tommasinianus

    Sown in 1998 I'm sort of guessing that this is Crocus tomasi...

    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Creeping Jenny

    Creeping Jenny

    Lysimachia nummularia

    Sown in 1998 These plants root at each leaf node so these pl...

    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Common (and somewhat vulgar) Hyacinth 'Pink Pearl'

    Common (and somewhat vulgar) Hyacinth 'Pink Pearl'

    Hyacinthus orientalis

    Sown in 1997 I don't know for sure if this is Pink Pearl, bu...

    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Utterly bonkers and vigorous Virginia Creeper

    Utterly bonkers and vigorous Virginia Creeper

    Parthenocissus quinquefolia

    Sown in 1997 I both love and hate this plant in equal measur...

    • 5 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 1 comments
    • Happy

  • Straggly bits of Lavender

    Straggly bits of Lavender

    Lavandula angustifolia

    Sown in 1997 I planted lavender in the front garden in the f...

    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 3 comments
    • Neutral

  • Invasive Grape hyacinths

    Invasive Grape hyacinths

    Muscari armeniacum

    Sown in 1997

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Sulking Ivy

    Sulking Ivy

    Hedera helix

    Sown in 1996

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Hardy and Persistent Columbine

    Hardy and Persistent Columbine

    Aquilegia

    Sown in 1996 I can not say for sure whether I first sowed aq...

    • 3 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Mallow kind of thing

    Mallow kind of thing

    Malva moschata

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

    • 4 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 4 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Sweet Violet

    Sweet Violet

    Viola odorata

    • 0 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

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