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Mon, Sep 9, 13 at 15:21
| We are practically heading out the door for another session in the woods (fitting the woodburner and skirting boards in horsebox) and don't have the time to compose a suitable reply to your long and detailed posting regarding your woods. It was extremely helpful to me because you put your finger on some of the dilemmas I am working through. I have been thinking hard about what I am trying to achieve....and although I am a bit vague and really far out of my comfort zone, I am fairly clear that I am not making a garden in the woods but a garden OF the woods. Yeah, I know, that sounds a bit arrogant.....but I am feeling a certain responsibility to behave with some restraint instead of brutally imposing my will on the natural world. I have been sowing seeds every day - today I did primula vulgaris and hesperis matronalis. Waiting for my mertensia seeds to arrive. The only working theory I have at moment relies on the heights of plants gradually increasing as the season goes on.......so, starting with aconites, galanthus, hepatica and anemones in Feb - moving onto the species narcissi, primula, chionodoxa, dodecatheon, erythroniums, mertensia. squill....then English bluebells, hardy geraniums, cardamines, silenes, aquilegias, Tulipa sprengeri (May-June). Getting taller with lunaria, hesperis, campanulas, digitalis, umbellifers (July) to finally, the tall hogweeds, aconitum, betony, stachys, wild valerian, epilobiums, wood asters, luzula and carex. Nothing lost by sowing seeds - they will either live and thrive....or die. We will have to see. Shrubs? In the middle of rooting a couple of hundred yews and hollys....but that is as far as I have got, apart from the osier beds. |
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- Posted by zeffyrose_pa6b7 6b7 (My Page) on Mon, Sep 9, 13 at 19:28
| It all sounds wonderful---I wish you the best with your woods Florence |
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