I’m planning a complete rethink of a border that isn’t really working, and I’d love some help.
It’s south facing, exposed, dimensions 3m x 2.5m. Soil is a weird mix of sandy and clay(ish) as the house is about 20 years old, built on a brownfield site.
Maybe I made the border too deep when I made the garden three years ago, or maybe I’m being impatient, but it’s never looked right.
It has a couple of fatsias, a sambucus nigra, some pheasant grass, astrantia major, a couple of dwarf hydrangeas and some irises. Climbers wise, it has a halliana japonica and a jasmine.
I have a chaemerops humilis in a pot that needs a home. I’m thinking of taking the fatsias and sambucus out, and putting in the palm plus something like a large rosemary bush, to make the bed a bit more Mediterranean.
I have no idea how to pull it all together, the bed is intimidatingly deep (my fault, I went a bit overboard in an effort to avoid the beginner error of skinny beds).
At the moment it just looks like a brown mess and I want to start reimagining it for spring.