North Garden – Charles’ Garden

This was the Veg Plot until Charles couldn’t manage full time work, professional photography and growing veggies. So no more veggies. But truth to tell, it still gets called the Veg Plot. Nowadays it has cardoons, which we don’t eat, with Heuchera Palace Purple and a growing number of ferns and purple fennel. It did have standard hollies until we got holly blight (yes, there is such a thing and it devastated the holly in our woods). The standards got decapitated and are now attempting to regrow, so we don’t know what their future will be.

The cardoons look good even in winter – they can be in leaf in January – and spring. But over time, in summer, they get huge.

And flower, which the bees love

There are flowers in the borders in the Veg Plot, and compost heaps which are disguised as bee hives for monster bees:

And the space which used to have the fruit cage is now called the Fruit Cage Garden according to Charles, and has shrubs and perennials which continue the grey and purple theme. And add scent all around when the Eleagnus Quicksilver is in flower.

And in late summer a medieval weapon, good against burglars arrives –

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