Thanks go this week to Jim Dean of Friends of the Dell, and the Heart of England in Bloom team who donated 150 spare geranium plants to the slopes. Jim kindly delivered them for us this afternoon. They were left over from the geranium trains, that the In Bloom committee arrange every year. They are filled with plants which local school children have grown on from plugs. Hopefully they will provide a splash of summer colour.
This is one of our difficult to grow areas. It's in full sun under large trees, and is mostly clay so bakes hard in the summer. It's also a bit of a run for those children who want to get down from the fence at the top and onto the grass as quickly as possible!
We think that geraniums should be able to cope with this. After all, you often see them left, un-watered, in terracotta pots for long periods and they seem to survive.
This acer has provided beautiful colour since the spring. The New Zealand flax next to it, is beginning to show signs of life again after a very long, cold winter and several weeks looking like a compost heap.
The Rambling Rector rose is winning! The gabions are slowly being covered by it and the neighbouring honeysuckle.
This has been done to soften the look of the gabions, because cheap and practical as they are, not everyone loves them.
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