Tips on Seasonal Gardening
Choosing a day when the soil is dry or hard frozen enough not to be damaged, the planting ideas which have been worked out in detail on paper can be pegged out on the site. To avoid referring repeatedly to a plan I print the name of each shrub in large capitals on a postcard and then pin this on a plant stake or cane.
Try to get all the rough digging done in the autumn so that the frost can break down the heavy Where the planting is being done into individual holes without digging the whole area, the same procedure is adopted only the organic matter used must be well rotted.
In winter my gardening continues with unabated vigour, but conversationally rather than physically. Each week there are meetings to attend, and always the talk is ofgrown shrubs was reviewed in some detail with the professionals, a minority group on this occasion, firm in their conviction that these have proved of benefit to both nurseryman and amateur gardener.
Berberis x stenophylla is a spreading ground hog which needs 8 to 10 ft. of elbow room whereas an attractive specimen of B. x lologensis in my own garden has grown to only 5 ft. in 16 years and spread out to occupy a modest square yard of soil.
Fortunately the B. x stenophylla can be restrained by pruning without destroying its characteristic shape, but this does not apply by any means to all invasive shrubs. I would rather be overgenerous in the matter of space than niggardly for gaps can be filled with bulbs or choice herbaceous perennials.
An example of this type of planting might be to put in three Cytisus albus because one alone would look a very wan orphan for two or three years. Cytisus is easy to propagate so before removing the unwanted bushes they could proVide cuttings for extending still further the shrub planting elsewhere in the garden. I would never use expensive shrubs for this filler technique unless, like rhododendrons, they transplanted easily and could be utilised elsewhere in the garden.
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