Rachel's Journal

Rachel where do you get all your energy ??? please bottle some for me :O)

Your hellebores look gorgeous. 

thats the trouble with supermarket stuff you don`t know how long they are out of the ground before you buy them.

You very determined girl, Rachel. How do you go about making the design? Do you draw planting scheme  or make it up as you go along?

It takes a woman on a mission to get things done. Hee hee. Well done, you.

You are getting a great lot done, like myself trying to make the most of these great days.

Great work, feet up and relax now.

Another good days work, the hellebores are wonderful in the sunshine.

Hellebore's look great Rachel! great plants for this time of year!

The contoneasters, Rachel.  Putting them on the top, I'm thinking you've done this so that they will grow downwards.  We have a 'cliff' in our gdn.  I would have put them in at the bottom, hoping they'd grow upwards.  I would say that you know what you're doing, so would that be the best place to start them off - at the top.  I'm going with your advice (last year) regarding the spreading purple plant, you told me about - must go back on my journal entry and write name down. 

Siobhan, I'm not always energetic. Had a lazy day today : )

You're right, John & Ann, a risky business with something important like hedging.

Krista, what design? I have designed my garden bit by bit but never on paper. I do go to the upstairs bedroom windows sometimes to plan as I can see all the garden from there. But actually sometimes flower-bed shapes look odd from above (and presumably also on paper) but they look fine from ground level. So I'm not sure how useful  drawing might be.

Thanks, everyone.

Sally, I have put the plants at the top, trusting they will grow down. But this is my only choice. Below is tarmac. Plants will generally tend to go up. You need to ask advice from someone who knows more about Cotoneasters than me maybe : )