Welcome to my collection about gardens and their gardeners.
Over the following few weeks I will probably be including to my common #SixOnSaturday posts with Sunday spots for fellow gardeners.
Meet up with earlier posts on this collection beneath:
Fred and his backyard in Normandy, France right here.
Sarah and her Australian backyard right here.
Páraig and his Irish backyard right here.
Selwa and her Belgium backyard right here.
Amelia and her backyard in Florida right here.
Kate and her backyard in Finland right here.
TopDock and his backyard in Alabama right here.
Arwen and her backyard in Wales right here.
Catherine and her Nottingham backyard right here.
Let’s discover out extra about Jude and her backyard.
Please inform us the place on this planet you reside and the way lengthy you will have had your present backyard.
I reside in Cornwall within the far south-west of England and moved right here in March 2016 right into a home with a rear backyard which is south-west going through, and a courtyard which is extra north going through and will get little or no direct daylight.
What’s the essential soil sort and what advantages or challenges this and the local weather trigger.
The soil is kind of heavy and stony and retains moisture so moisture loving vegetation are glad, however others are likely to rot over the winter. It’s a really uncovered backyard going through south-west and excessive up on the downs so uncovered to the south westerlies. As a result of it’s fairly damp in Cornwall there are a variety of slugs and snails which have challenged me through the years. Fundamental profit is that we not often get a frost.
Have you ever made any main modifications to your backyard or have you ever any new plans for modifications?
Initially the backyard was predominantly garden, however with a big flat rock which meant mowing the garden was a ache. I rapidly determined that many of the garden needed to go to present me extra planting areas. The borders are stone constructed partitions with little rising in them, and on one aspect it’s shaded a variety of the 12 months by a neighbouring barn. I didn’t make any modifications to the backyard till 2017 as I wished to see what was already rising and the way the sunshine fell by means of the 12 months. I outlined 6 completely different zones, now 7 to make planting selections simpler. Future plans embody clearing a number of of the raised beds and eradicating vegetation which are previous their greatest now.
Do you will have a selected backyard model that you simply attempt to preserve to? ie natural, cottage backyard, rose backyard, conventional for the local weather and so forth.
I’ve all the time favoured a backyard for wildlife so targeting vegetation that entice bees and butterflies, however I rapidly discovered that a variety of perennials die over the moist winters. Now I just like the naturalistic rules with a backyard that I can preserve simply and with uncomplicated vegetation that want no particular care. Natives and hard perennials and grasses that may address the moist winters, dry summers and windy circumstances.
Inform us about a few of your favorite vegetation and why you want them.
I’ve actually no explicit favourites, however I do like herbs and develop fairly a couple of completely different ones in a raised mattress. After they flower they entice a variety of bees and I take advantage of mint, parsley, chives, rosemary and oregano and thyme within the kitchen. I discover working within the herb mattress to be very enjoyable and fairly meditative. Lately I’ve additionally change into very keen on grasses and tall floaty perennials similar to verbena bonariensis, geums and thalictrum and I really like clematis as climbing vegetation.
You’ve just lately been including some posts that includes the flora that you simply see in your walks, are there any particular locations that you simply wish to go?
Cornwall is legendary for its spring gardens and I take pleasure in spending time visiting them particularly when the magnolias, camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas are flowering, however lots of them have good herbaceous borders in the summertime too with uncommon vegetation which might develop within the milder local weather right here. The George V Memorial stroll in Hayle is great for unique vegetation all 12 months spherical and in Penzance you can see the Morrab Backyard with its Mediterranean and and sub-tropical vegetation, the Penlee Memorial Backyard and in addition a lot of pretty planting alongside the harbourside. And naturally the countryside lanes in Cornwall are filled with native wildflowers and hedges containing gorse, purple campion, foxgloves, bluebells, montbretia, hawthorn, blackthorn, ivy, elderflowers and subject maple and way more.
In case you’d wish to see extra of Jude’s backyard posts please do observe her weblog Cornwall In Colors.
Jude additionally has a helpful listing of gardens right here.
Jude additionally has a journey and photograph problem weblog right here.
Please be a part of me in thanking Jude for sharing her stunning backyard with us.
