KNOW YOUR GARDEN PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
Having worked for years as a designer in the luxury home building market, Sara Edwards decided to combine her design experience with her passion for plants into a garden design business. To launch No.30 Design Studio, she designed and built a show garden at RHS Malvern Spring Festival and was awarded a coveted Gold Medal and ‘Best in Category’. Sara now works with discerning clientele throughout the borders and West Midlands to bring their dream gardens to life.
As we roll into July, it is hard not to be seduced into relaxing in the garden during the warm summer evenings with a chilled glass of wine, however if your garden is not a relaxing space and does not work for you there is no better time to act and start planning on its improvements.
But where do you start? Last month I discussed creating a garden from a blank canvas, this month I will give you some advice on what to do if you have a mature and established garden.
As we pass mid-summer our gardens are at their peak, with most herbaceous perennials, summer flowering bulbs are in full swing and deciduous trees and shrubs are in full leaf. This is the perfect time to start observing and recording what is happening in your garden. This is especially critical if the property is new to you, in which case you should do nothing for twelve months, except observe and record what appears and dies back through the seasons.
The easiest way to do this is take photos of each area of the garden, every couple of weeks as a record, and make notes on what looks good, what is not growing well, what you like and what you dislike. It might be that there is nothing endearing about any of it, or some things might look alright but are in the wrong place, and some things might look overgrown, too big, or too straggly.
I find it useful to use canes in the ground and plastic plant labels (wood ones can rot off over time) to mark where bulbs and perennials are during the year, which makes it easier to relocate or remove them later, if dormant.
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