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The rain combined with periods of sunshine and warmer weather have encouraged the plants to grow well including all the weeds. The borders in The Tasting Garden and Copper Beech Garden were in constant need of weeding and removal of encroaching grass from the edges. Overcrowded plants had to be thinned out, self-seeded oxeye daisies and tellima pulled out and aquilegia and sweet rocket cut back after flowering. The native primroses were thinned out in April then either replanted under the copper beech tree or potted up for sale. In May tulips, narcissi and hellebores were deadheaded and the forget-me-nots pulled out. The choisya in the border beside the slope up to the gardens was cut back and cosmos seedlings planted. Deadheading, cutting back and weeding has continued in the Hollygon. In June a sign was fixed to the railings “This garden is maintained by the Friends of the Storey Gardens. Volunteers have continued the very time consuming tasks of mowing the grass with a push mower and cutting round the edges of the paths with hand shears in The Tasting Garden. The paths were so overgrown with weeds that the trained expert returned with his professional flame gun weeder in June. A project to document the plants in the garden and their locations is ongoing. The borders are being measured (see photographs below) and the plant locations drawn on to scale plans. Lists of some of the plants in flower during these months are reported in separate posts on the Nature blog, click here for April here for May and here for June.
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This is a blog about the work we have been doing in the gardens. For news about interesting sights in the gardens such as flowers in bloom or wildlife seen go to our Nature blog.
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November 2024
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