Hello!

Hello everyone,

Just doing my introductory post. Thanks for accepting me into the forum.

I have a 90ft north facing garden in a London Borough, which is not bad considering how packed in everybody is around here! We have clay soil. The whole area my street is built on used to be apple orchards, but our garden is the only one without an apple tree! But we do have a massive and very old Hawthorn tree at the back, recently pruned because the crown was getting far too large and we were worried about it coming down. We have a cherry blossom, plumb and a couple of red robins.

I am a flower lover and love colour, fragrance and bees buzzing around in the summer. I tend to choose plants that smell nice and encourage the bees and butterflies.

I have three English Lavendar bushes. Two buddliea plants, one white and one purple (I am a train driver, it's very easy to get cuttings of these!). Oddly enough, despite buddliea being known as a nuisance and growing anywhere and everywhere, it took me years to get these two plants to survive! We have a passionfruit plant growing over the back fence and into our garden, I should cut it back because it isn't our plant, but it looks beautiful when it flowers and fruits! We have a random oriental poppy which appears every year in the middle of the lawn, we had about 10 flowers from it last year. We have one rose bush which we bought for a £1 which flowers beautifully every year.

I have invested in a little greenhouse which I am attempting to grow pansy and petunia seedlings, some lavendar cuttings I hope will take root and sweetpeas. I have also invested in some wooden troughs which I have planted lots of bulbs in and hope they come up over the summer.

I have included a picture of my garden below. It looks a tad messy, but looks at lot better when everything is in bloom. I've been out there weeding and getting rid of the prickles!

Once again, thanks for having me.

Tony

 

Hi Tony,



Welcome to Gardeners Corner

 

Hi Tony and welcome to GC, a north facing garden, you will need pretty much shade loving plants, and with clay soil, you need plants that like damp soil, with a good nitrogen requirement, Im thinking , early spring snowdrops, fritillaries, lily of the valley, Erythroniums, Hosta, Rhoddodendron, climbing Hydrangea, Astilbes, Ferns, Sarcococca, Astrantia, some Geranium, Corydalis, Gunnera, foxglove and in a better light Malianthus major, and summer bedding like Begonia, Bidens, Fushcia, napeta and Diachondra. Think woodland, anyhow welcome.

 

But don't forget @TJJ5621 and @Cuttings that if one end of the garden is North facing then then the other will be South facing so not all shade.

 

Exactly like ours

 

Hello Tony

 

And ours, that's why I said it

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Absolutely. It's quite a long garden, so the lawn gets sun most of the day. The patio is the one where the sun disappears first!

 

Welcome to GC Tony.