The Garden on October

[Palustris]

He's back, he's boasting. Here is the garden as on 01.10.04., before the rain and wind flattened everything.
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[Palustris]

[Wicker]

I'm ignoring your comment about boasting - you're not boasting just sharing! Wonderful again, Eric and don't the ducks look happy in their natural environment..

What is that you have used to keep planting off the grass in pic 49 on the left hand side?  Just interested doubt if I would need it on the lottie!

[busy_lizzie]

You have every reason to boast Eric.  What a fabulous garden. Your path is looking great - remember when you put it in, looks like it has always been there now. Everything looks so well managed  though it also looks so natural.  :) busy_lizzie

[Palustris]

Ta!. The green netting alongside the currant bushes in 49 is Windbreak Pro-grow Titan material from LBS Plastics in Cottontree near Colne in Lancashire. It is there to keep (hah ha) the hens out of the vegetable patch. It is also supposed to stop carrot root fly but does not.

[Mimi]

Great photos as always Eric ;)  So what is the next project now that 'The New Forest' is almost complete?

[Palustris]

Er....................................................................
The Great Wall of China????????????????????????????
Actually it is to build a hyper-tufa rock garden inside the Alpine Greenhouse.

[eileen]

Eric your photographs are amazing as always.  ;D

We went to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh a few weeks ago and your garden looks just as good as theirs, in fact, to be honest, I prefer yours as it's more 'natural' and you don't have hoards of gardeners doing it all for you.  :D

Hope everything wasn't too badly damaged after all those high winds and the teeming rain.

Eileen.

[Kerry]

boast away, indeed! looks as great as ever.
i particularly like the grass+perennial bed in 42. can you tell me what the plants are in 37 and 39, and 48-particularly the grass on the right hand side? thanks.
oh! and how do you manage to stop them flopping? do they support each other or have you a cunning stake system?

[Palustris]

The tall yellow flowers are various forms of Helianthus decapetala and H. salicifolia. The other yellow ones are Rudbeckia nitida. The grasses are various forms of Miscanthus sinensis. The white flowers are an Aster called Aster cordifolius (I think). The small grass at the front in the other picture is a Carex muskimusensis and the very tall grass is Miscanthus sacchariflorus. There are also some Deschampsia too and Kniphofia northiae which has huge 6 inches wide leaves.
The whole point of the bed is that there is no staking. However, next year I will probably have to put some in as the early stuff like Cephalaria gigantea and the Rudbeckia do fall over and cause problems.
By the way Oz, the full tour takes about 3 hours or all day if you want to look at plants in detail.

[Kerry]

thankyou, i've made a note of those for my own garden, which is about the size of that bed anyway!

[Palustris]

The whole "Daisy Lawn" is about 20 metres by 20 metres. What you cannot see is that in fact it is hollow with an area of concrete about 6m by 4m on which stands the other gazebo, like the one in the Woodland area.
There are a lot more plants in it which flower earlier than those you can see now. All have either grass like leaves or daisy shaped flowers. Easy to choose!

[Kerry]

oh!! slightly bigger than my back garden then....!
daisy flowers:have you tried boltonia asteroides? only started properly flowering about 2 weeks ago and will continue for a while, hopefully. i'll bet you know it, but if you don't, it's about 4-5ft high with very delicate white daisy flowers on top of thin stems.

[Gardengirl]

Wonderful as always Eric.  Trouble is I could do with a slideshow facility so that I could just sit back and enjoy all your lovely photos.

Pat

[Garden Manager]

Wonderfull as ever then eric. Still looking good at the begining of october. I hope the wind and rain hasnt done too much harm, and that it still looks OK even now.

My garden has (so far) survived the weather well and is still looking fine for the time of year. plenty of colour still, here and there. things like gailardias and penstemons have hardly stopped flowering since mid summer!

Your pics though have reminded me to get out there with the camera again. Havent done so since the end of september, and i like to keep a monthly record of things, now i have a digi camera.