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23.07.2024 - 09:27 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
Back in February, I was talking about the new direction our garden was taking, and what it might become in the future, and it’s about time for an update.
Our new lawn is weedy. Some of it is the standard dandelions, thistles and whatnot, but there are some more exciting weeds – perennial plants from the old garden that have just refused to die. There’s a mauve-flowered comfrey plants that the bees absolutely love, which is growing through the lawn on the right-hand side. We mow around it, and I chop it back when it gets too tall and floppy.
There are raspberries trying to grow through on the left side, but I’m discouraging those. There are also wineberries, and I’ve pulled up a couple of those and put them into pots. I’m thrilled that the shady corner by the gate is still home to a thriving patch of wild garlic; less thrilled that sticky weed (cleavers) likes it there, too.
(The front garden is much the same, with daylilies, Babington’s leeks and rhubarb growing through the turf!)
We’ve done a little bit of outdoor cooking, on our faithful old bucket barbecue. It’s just the right size for dinner for two, quick and easy to work with. We tried making a hobo dinner (hamburger, potatoes and vegetables cooked in foil packets), and that’s quite fun.
Ryan wanted a few plants in pots, to brighten the place up and feed some bees, so we went to the garden centre and picked (fairly randomly) some perennials and I potted them up. We have a pot of purple flowers, one of yellow flowers, one of blue flowers and a mixed pot of alpines. Theoretically, Ryan is in charge of watering. They haven’t needed much so far.
One of the slightly strange things about this house is that it doesn’t have a garage. Instead, we’re part of a group of houses that
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