Some Tips on Gardening
A small prostrate yew, Taxus baccata horizontalis, performs a similar function under a solitary Field Maple on the lane border in this garden. Strange that it took a friendly visitor’s appreciation to draw my attention to the service the native Blaeberry, Vaccinium myrtillus, gives as sub-scrub in the woodland.
To prevent primulas seeding under some shrubs growing only a path’s width away I carpeted the soil beneath the shrubs with Lithospermum Heavenly Blue. The mat of leaves was covered with a mass of blue flowers in early summer. Indeed, these continued intermittently until the autumn. This plant is difficult to root and started to take extra care with the cuttings. I lost all but three from one batch so that now I continue my old practice and once again the cuttings root with perfect composure and no difficulty.
The growth of the Butcher’s Broom, Ruscus aculeatus, is closely packed, and the spine- tipped leaves appear highly polished as if they were varnished. Though extremely shade tolerant it resents a very wet acid soil, and berries sparsely in poor light conditions. Only once, in Northumberland, have I seen the bright red marble fruits really thick on a bush which was sited on the west face of a low wall.
The varieties of Hedera helix make a pleasant evergreen carpet under deciduous trees and shrubs, especially if the handsome foliage is enlivened here and there with groups of snowdrops or narcissus.
The gallant Rose of Sharon, Hypericum calycinum, saved me endless work by condescending to clothe the sides of a dry shady bank, surmounted by standard prunus trees which had been a constant source of irritation for years. Though my admiration is undimmed, experience with the same plant has caused me to be grateful that in this my first experiment it was confined from spreading beyond a prescribed limit by a flagstone path set in concrete. However, the large yellow flowers are sufficient compensation for the small labour of clipping the old shoots hard back each spring.
I have a problem corner in my own garden which after fourteen years of experiment has achieved a harmony which makes it one of the most pleasant beds, in the garden. If one shrub failed to impress or permitted that pernicious weed landcress to survive it was removed and another was acquired from elsewhere in the garden.
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