Its that time of year when I remove more of the lawn and extend and reshape the borders in the garden. The basic borders are now getting quite established and for the last year or so I have not really made any major changes, I have just tweaked around the edges. This year I would say I have achieved a major tweak, it is not a great change in shape or in size, but it is change of feeling I think for the garden.








What I am not going to do though is buy lots of plants to fill these spaces, I cannot afford it and even if I could it would be hugely wasteful and not achieve how I like to plant these borders. I like repetition, not too much, but the same plant will appear along the border to give it some rhythm. Some plants will appear in the Pond Border and in the Coal Bunker Border to tie them together. Other plants will appear in the Pond Border and the Conservatory Border and others in the Conservatory and the Coal Bunker Border. Not many plants appear in all three apart from roses. Roses dominate the formal part of the garden but do not appear in the Tree Lupin border or the Woodland Border and Bog Garden. The only roses that side of the garden are the Rosa Wild Edric growing up the eating apple tree near the Dancing Lawn and there are a couple of wild roses in the Woodland Border.
To fill up the new space I will probably buy some more roses, maybe five and I am yet to choose which ones though I would not be surprised if another Sir Clough did not find its way into the garden. I will then be dividing my existing plants to fill up most of the remaining space. I also have some fuchsia cuttings that will be looking for a home. The remaining gaps will be filled by seed-sowing I expect. This will not be an expensive undertaking but it is exciting and I am looking forward to making the planting that I see in my imagination appear in reality.