As usual, I do enjoy your garden's transformation. I just started writing in my blog again after three years of laying fallow, because I wanted to share my gardening journey. There's just something about our gardens that reflect our souls, I think. Gardening is hard, sweaty work. I, too, have a "never again" project (not killing spawn-of…
As usual, I do enjoy your garden's transformation. I just started writing in my blog again after three years of laying fallow, because I wanted to share my gardening journey. There's just something about our gardens that reflect our souls, I think. Gardening is hard, sweaty work. I, too, have a "never again" project (not killing spawn-of-Satan Bermuda grass before tilling it in to plant native buffalo grass.) I admire formal gardens, but since most of mine is grown from seed (which was part of a planned layout) that got tossed by wind and gullywashers, it is more like a wild prairie jungle. My son said it sounds like a British cottage garden. I think even cottage gardens are more well-planned. Next year I'll get the courage to pull desirable plants growing in the wrong places. I'll send you the link to my blog via email. Our gardens couldn't be more different, but it's fun reading about the journey. Yours is beautiful and looks very peaceful. Congratulations to you ahd Vicky!
Formal gardens are beautiful. We visit some, especially in the warm season, and admire them. But those are far beyond what either of us feels capable of doing. That's what people like our neighbor Sue can do.
Ours isn't a classic English garden. It isn't quite a cottage garden either, particularly the blueberry bed where I have mixed everything together instead of having tidy sections. What we have suits us and that will have to do.
If your unintentionally wild prairie is thriving and feels right to you on the whole, then it suits you and it will have to do. I'm glad you are taking up your blog again. It will probably be full of your excellent photography alongside the words. Looking forward to it.
It's usually a mix that includes some type of ryegrass for color & wear, and some type of fescue for deeper roots to get through weather extremes. Lawns are sometimes seeded here rather than having sod laid.
My wife V bought special sod to redo our back lawn when we reached that point. I'm not sure what's in it, but it is normally used for playing fields that have to tolerate heavy wear and tear. Our dogs still rip chunks out of it when they play, but it is surviving where standard grass would give up. Lawn grass here is thin-bladed, not at all resembling the wide-bladed St. Augustine I grew up with on the Gulf Coast.
As usual, I do enjoy your garden's transformation. I just started writing in my blog again after three years of laying fallow, because I wanted to share my gardening journey. There's just something about our gardens that reflect our souls, I think. Gardening is hard, sweaty work. I, too, have a "never again" project (not killing spawn-of-Satan Bermuda grass before tilling it in to plant native buffalo grass.) I admire formal gardens, but since most of mine is grown from seed (which was part of a planned layout) that got tossed by wind and gullywashers, it is more like a wild prairie jungle. My son said it sounds like a British cottage garden. I think even cottage gardens are more well-planned. Next year I'll get the courage to pull desirable plants growing in the wrong places. I'll send you the link to my blog via email. Our gardens couldn't be more different, but it's fun reading about the journey. Yours is beautiful and looks very peaceful. Congratulations to you ahd Vicky!
Formal gardens are beautiful. We visit some, especially in the warm season, and admire them. But those are far beyond what either of us feels capable of doing. That's what people like our neighbor Sue can do.
Ours isn't a classic English garden. It isn't quite a cottage garden either, particularly the blueberry bed where I have mixed everything together instead of having tidy sections. What we have suits us and that will have to do.
If your unintentionally wild prairie is thriving and feels right to you on the whole, then it suits you and it will have to do. I'm glad you are taking up your blog again. It will probably be full of your excellent photography alongside the words. Looking forward to it.
Curious to know, what kind of grass is preferred for British lawns?
It's usually a mix that includes some type of ryegrass for color & wear, and some type of fescue for deeper roots to get through weather extremes. Lawns are sometimes seeded here rather than having sod laid.
My wife V bought special sod to redo our back lawn when we reached that point. I'm not sure what's in it, but it is normally used for playing fields that have to tolerate heavy wear and tear. Our dogs still rip chunks out of it when they play, but it is surviving where standard grass would give up. Lawn grass here is thin-bladed, not at all resembling the wide-bladed St. Augustine I grew up with on the Gulf Coast.