tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post8281925129647687327..comments2012-12-01T02:56:10.201-08:00Comments on Keeping track of the garden: Resurrecting the garden diaryElizabeth Musgravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post-43836206555356535462012-12-01T02:56:10.201-08:002012-12-01T02:56:10.201-08:00If ever I needed proof that years of photos of the...If ever I needed proof that years of photos of the garden, taken regularly and from the same place, are worth their weight in gold when it comes to planning and assessing this is it. It has made me think, I started my own blog as a garden diary, but I have come to love the interactions so much that I find myself editing what I post about, when for my own purposes a regular record of what is and some comments on the good and bad is so useful. The EOMV is invaluable, but now that I have more garden, and so much will be changing, I wonder if I need a second, more notebookish, blog. <br /><br />And by the way, you have wreaked magic on your side garden, it has filled out with structure and colour, and is delightful. The tulips do work wonderfully well. I think you need some really tough trouble-free plants for late summer/autumn that you don't have to worry about but that will make you smile as you walk through in that period when you are not gardening with as much passion as earlier in the year. Would late flowering asters work? They can grow large, flower for weeks, and if you pick ones that don't suffer from mildew, should just get on with it. And then have good seedheads. Janet/Plantaliscioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605580157193047780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post-33078272915270731312012-11-13T03:53:41.589-08:002012-11-13T03:53:41.589-08:00And end of year review is not a bad idea. My garde...And end of year review is not a bad idea. My garden is so much smaller than yours that I usually know very quickly what to discard. Sarcococcus, for instance. I’d love to have it, even close to the house for the winter smell, but it just doesn’t like me. I’ve tried many times. How do you grow it? It’s not meant to have any special needs.<br /><br />Your side garden has everything needed for abundant flowering to judge by the variety shown here: light, sun and moisture. And decent soil, no doubt. If it gets very muddy in autumn and winter, could it do with a bit of drainage?<br /><br />I usually leave things to fend for themselves in difficult places, whatever flourishes, is allowed to do so. No straitjackets.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post-92084480812797581882012-11-11T15:53:24.447-08:002012-11-11T15:53:24.447-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Jack Cruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03274037231899834704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post-17367354328008747292012-11-11T15:26:07.685-08:002012-11-11T15:26:07.685-08:00It's hard to know how to play it. I have a lo...It's hard to know how to play it. I have a lot of things here which I have grown from seed or propagated from existing plants. Things succeed much better if they already "belong" but that can't mean I can't have new things can it? But yes, I have a lot of thugs and bullies!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post-80216853426829314152012-11-11T15:24:15.227-08:002012-11-11T15:24:15.227-08:00I agree completely about the necessity for avoidan...I agree completely about the necessity for avoidance of the "bitty" effect. I had decided that I was quite happy if the side garden didn't do late summer and I would leave that to the bank in front of the cottage but I do find that the problem is that I don't sit in front of the cottage but do sit here so I notice!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post-14728789307215532022012-11-11T13:57:34.961-08:002012-11-11T13:57:34.961-08:00no suggestions, but I know the sad frustration and...no suggestions, but I know the sad frustration and disappointment - of planting something suitable, carefully chosen, I like it - and watching it quietly fade away. GRRRumble. Oh well, I shall spread around what DOES grow, thugs and bullies tho they may be. Diana Studerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286066768376135880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179692499589855275.post-47949840600896006702012-11-11T13:08:49.925-08:002012-11-11T13:08:49.925-08:00I liked your side garden when I visited. I liked ...I liked your side garden when I visited. I liked all the textures of the foliage as well as the flowers. I think you need to decide if you want it to be colourful most of the year or to have a shorter season of interest. Sometimes if you try and get something to look good all year it can just look bitty, I have been struggling with that in my garden. I think our garden spaces are quite small and that impacts on it too.Helen/patientgardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02164036792673009326noreply@blogger.com