the New Pond Garden Planting
This is a new part of my garden which has replaced the vegetable beds that used to be here with something more ornamental. The … read more
The Pond Garden
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The Pond Garden is a formal design at the far end of my back garden. It consists of several L-shaped raised beds which surround a small rectangular pond with a bridge across the centre. Fruit is trained along the boundary. Prior to their transformation in 2019 these beds were used for vegetable growing.
A Dry Meadow Theme: The planting in the raised beds consists of lowish herbaceous plants, bulbs, herbs, alpines, lavender and roses. The main season is high summer: June – September with an aim to attract insects and butterflies.
Renovating the Vegetable Garden
Background Ideas I am in the process of repurposing and revamping the vegetable garden. It’s not really going to be a vegetable garden anymore. … read more
Water soldiers
These aquatic ‘spider plants’ are Stratiotes aloides or Water Soldiers – a British native, that is to my mind, a highly desirable ornamental pond plant. You … read more
First flowers of water lily ‘Gonnère’
This is only their second summer since I planted them in the double pond that forms a central feature in my formal vegetable garden. I have … read more
Formal pond in the vegetable garden
The centre piece of my vegetable garden is this formal pond, which was started in 2012. It’s overall size is about 6′ x 11′, … read more