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Deano's Back North Facing garden

Created on Thursday, 26 Jun 08

My own gardens are small, The north facing back garden is no exception, this is only north facing as next door have a fence of leylandii that blocks the sun under the it. It is not quite a north alignment as almost all of it has full sun around mid-summer for the first few hours of sun light in the morning.

When we got here in September 2006, the back garden looked like a clay tennis court, there wasn’t even grass growing – the only thing were some brambles and nettles towards the back of the hedge… 1 rotavator, good few boxes of clay breaker, 15 bags of sand and grit and lots of manure later, there was something that looked like a freshly plowed field… Almost 2 years have passed and the both the back borders are looking good and starting to mature.

There are a few plans going into this garden currently as I have moved four Geraniums that had gone a little wild. These have been moved to a little side border than runs down the side of the drive.

Organic Garden

Garden Type: Backyard | Sun: Dappled Sun | Soil: Clay

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  • Hosta 'Fire and Ice' Day 159

    Hosta 'Fire and Ice'

    Hosta

    Planted on 27 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Penstemon 'Firebird' Day 159

    Penstemon 'Firebird'

    Penstemon fruticosus

    Planted on 27 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink' Day 159

    Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink'

    Penstemon gloxinoides

    Planted on 27 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Penstemon 'Maurice Gibbs' Day 159

    Penstemon 'Maurice Gibbs'

    Penstemon gloxinoides

    Planted on 27 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Helenium autumnale 'Moerheim Beauty' Day 162

    Helenium autumnale 'Moerheim Beauty'

    Helenium autumnale

    I bought this at the Nursery at Great Dixter, the garden of the gre...

    Planted on 24 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Hosta 'Sun Power" Day 162

    Hosta 'Sun Power"

    Hosta

    Planted on 24 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Dahlia 'Moonfire' Day 162

    Dahlia 'Moonfire'

    Dahlia

    Planted on 24 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Iris Setosa Day 163

    Iris Setosa

    Iris

    Planted on 23 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Geranium Rozanne Day 165

    Geranium Rozanne

    Geranium x wallichianum

    I needed something that would tolerate the shade of the North facin...

    Planted on 21 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Astilbe 'Queen of Holland' Day 165

    Astilbe 'Queen of Holland'

    Astilbe

    This again is towards the front of the "North" facing border and ge...

    Planted on 21 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Hosta 'June' Day 165

    Hosta 'June'

    Hosta

    We've now got quite a few hosta's as they seem to do well in this l...

    Planted on 21 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Acer Day 179

    Acer

    Acer palmatum

    Planted on 07 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Feathered Oak Fern Day 186

    Feathered Oak Fern

    Planted on 31 May 08

    • 1 journals
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  • Lilly-of-the-valley Day 216

    Lilly-of-the-valley

    Convallaria majalis

    This is one of Dean's Mum's favorite's, but she can't grow it in he...

    Planted on 01 May 08

    • 2 journals
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  • Hosta 'Halcyon'

    Hosta 'Halcyon'

    Hosta

    Planted on 01 May 07

    • 1 journals
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  • Thalictrum delavayi 'Hewitt's Double'

    Thalictrum delavayi 'Hewitt's Double'

    Thalictrum delavaii

    Planted on 01 May 07

    • 1 journals
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    • Very Happy

  • Fern 'Cristata The King'

    Fern 'Cristata The King'

    Dryopteris Affinis

    Planted on 01 May 07

    • 1 journals
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  • Corydalis flexuosa 'China Blue'

    Corydalis flexuosa 'China Blue'

    corydalis flexuosa

    Planted on 01 May 07

    • 1 journals
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  • Hosta 'Wide Brim'

    Hosta 'Wide Brim'

    Hosta

    Planted on 01 Apr 07

    • 1 journals
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  • Paeonia 'Sarah Bernhardt'

    Paeonia 'Sarah Bernhardt'

    Paeonia lactiflora

    Planted on 01 Apr 07

    • 1 journals
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  • Dicentra Spectabilis

    Dicentra Spectabilis

    Dicentra spectabilis

    Planted on 01 Mar 07

    • 1 journals
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