Happibun's 1. Formal Front garden
Garden Type: Formal | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Loam | Established: 2008 | Organic
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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.
Located in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, Happibun's 1. Formal Front garden is an outdoor organic garden that currently contains 18 plants.
This is a Formal garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 8b. It has mainly Loam soil and receives Partial Sun light.Photos
Plantings
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Lilium
Sown on 01 Oct 08 Damn, I thought I had logged these when I plant...
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Cyclamen persicum
Planting Out on 25 Sep 08 I'm going cyclamen bonkers. I have decided ...
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Geranium robertianum
Established on 16 Jun 08 This is a new one to me :-) I have found a v...
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Eschscholzia californica
Sown on 02 Jun 08 More Californian poppy goodness :-) This tim...
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Eschscholzia californica
Sown on 30 May 08 I sprinkled about 100 seeds in to the right han...
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Narcissus
Sown in 2005 I was given a couple of pots of these dwarf daf...
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Lonicera periclymenum
Transplanted in 1999 Lonicera pericyclamen 'Graham Thomas' This w...
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Crocus tommasinianus
Sown in 1999 I'm sort of guessing that this is Crocus tomasi...
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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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Lavandula angustifolia
Sown in 1998 I planted lavender in the front garden in the f...
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Muscari armeniacum
Sown in 1998
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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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Malva moschata
I really love this plant. I'm not sure what it ...
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Viola odorata
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