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[abwsco]

that looks good already! what you put in depends on light etc I guess, but I can see a beautiful avenue of shrubs and perennials and spring bulbs looking fantastic.

 

Ooh, that's a good idea beach chick We need to drastically prune back plants on either side and there's also remains of chipped wood on the soil on either side. We only really get the sun on the right hand side. I love to see a pretty garden but am a lazy one so wondered about a wildflower seed mixture.

 

oh god, dont do the wildflowers!!! they look fab for about 3 weeks of the year, but they take a lot more work than you could ever think possible!! you have to scythe them down, leave for 4 days, rake them all up again - and then you have nothing left til the next year. we tried a meadow once, but never again...

 

I'd go for a nice framework of reliable flowering shrubs - stuff that brings butterflies, like buddleia and hebe and comes back year after year. looks like your hedge is evergreen - laurel maybe? in that case you can let the shrubs do the colour and not have to put in too many (boring I think) ever green things for year round framework. then some perennials which die down in winter - but often have nice stems you can leave on over the winter to look pretty with cobwebs and frost 'n stuff. you just chop em down to the ground in spring and they pop up again in a couple of weeks.

 

 

Oh, thanks bc Good job I asked. Not too sure what the shrubs are apart from being old. One of them does smell a bit like dog poo at times though I've taken some more pics of either side today to show the shrubs but not sure where on the forum to post for advice

[Chortle Chook]

I too have fenced off the patio and I've also acceped that grass is not the thing for my chooks, (good decision as my OH used to complain a lot about mowing the lawn ). I have divided the garden into sections with a wiggly path (which I admit does get pooped on) and box hedging. In the various sections I have some tiny apple trees, roses, lavenders, bamboos (the chickens keep these nicely stripped at the bottom so the bamboo stems show, a job I used to hate) and lots of nice climbers going up the fence that runs down the side. As for bulbs and perennials we decided not to plant anything new this year and to see what goes and what is left. To my amazmenet my young delphiniums are being left quite alone and so are hostas and also all lilies (both day lilies / hemarocalis, and some regale lilies) though I guess things could change when they flower. Less surprising, box and lavender have remained untouched so far. One thing that did surprise me was that my chooks totally decimated my heathers. I thought they'd be all prickly and inedible but my girls thought otherwise and not a leaf remains. The same with my rosemary.