According to the neighbours the garden had been unattended for about a decade. In that time many hundreds of saplings (they looked like ash) have taken root. The small ones could be pulled out by hand but most needed digging out. Not hard but when you have hundreds it can get tiring. Spend two weekends on it so far and probably have half the garden cleared.
Worse than the trees are the creepers which are thick on the ground and like to put down roots every 6 or so inches which makes pulling them out hard.
The garden is a good space and we will first get accustomed to the levels and how we start to use it before we do anything. Currently we are thinking of some lovely blossoming trees and beautiful blue stone walls. We will visit https://www.opus40.org/ again to give us some inspiration.
Rhododendrons would probably do well with the shade levels. What about mountain laurel? I think it’s an evergreen.
I like the idea of Mountain Laurel. I will look it up. I think we will try and use quite a few native trees and plants.
Thank you, mountain laurel looks lovely 🙂
I know who can do your blue stone walls!
Ha ha I think I know also!!!!
Get ivy as ground cover instead of grass. Grass is a pain in the butt. Or myrtle (also known as vinca). If you want something you can walk and sit on, there is a new kind of grass that only grows to a certain height, so you don’t have to mow it often. And don’t forget the beneficial nematodes! 🙂