A future for the front lawn?
21.08.2023 - 12:05
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/ Emma Doughty
This summer, we will be focusing on the main garden. The aim is to have the structure in place by the end of the year, so I can spending next year gardening rather than building the garden. It’s not that it hasn’t been an interesting experience, and I’m loving watching the design unfold and become the garden we want, but I’ve spent far more of the year wanting to garden than I will spend actually gardening!
This involves lots of day dreaming, and flights of fancy, and pondering what will go where in the garden. With the main garden design well under way, I have continued to think about the other two areas that we will need to tackle in the future.
The furthest strip from the house is currently a refugee camp for my plants in pots. Many of them will come back and find a permanent home in the main garden in due course. The strip (and I’m tempted to call it the Sunset Strip, since it is west facing) can only be accessed from the road in front of the house, and so is far less convenient to garden. In permaculture terms, it’s a different zone, and needs to be treated differently. It will need to be planted with species that can take more care of themselves – almost certainly all perennials. On the plus side, I do walk past it on my way to and from work every day, so it’s not as if it’s out of sight (as long as I remember to look!).
So that’s a project for later, probably next year. Ryan and I toss ideas about occasionally. Eventually some of them will stick and we’ll come up with a plan.
The front garden is an easier proposition, because it’s half finished. The paving is done, and the planters are in place with temporary contents. The idea is for the planters to become a herb garden, as they’re in a sunny and sheltered spot that
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