I note we have cookery threads but nothing devoted to horticultural pursuits and I'm sure I'm not the only green fingered CUKer so I thought I'd get the ball rolling.
Mr Gittins is just putting the finishing touches to a dry stone wall that forms the boundary between our house and the neighboring field. Ever since we've lived there, this old wall has been very higglegy piggledy and tumbledown. It has also been covered with weeds and brambles. Now all that has been cleared I can see that the wall is a good 3 feet across so I'm tempted to fill it with a couple of feet of topsoil and plant it up.
Now, the first thing that leapt to mind was alpines - saxifrage, aubretia, all that kind of stuff - but I don't really find alpines that exciting, do you? I quite like pinks which are suited to these conditions but I've go planty of thosevelsrwhere.
Can anyone suggest a few genuses that are suited to these conditions?
Mr Gittins is just putting the finishing touches to a dry stone wall that forms the boundary between our house and the neighboring field. Ever since we've lived there, this old wall has been very higglegy piggledy and tumbledown. It has also been covered with weeds and brambles. Now all that has been cleared I can see that the wall is a good 3 feet across so I'm tempted to fill it with a couple of feet of topsoil and plant it up.
Now, the first thing that leapt to mind was alpines - saxifrage, aubretia, all that kind of stuff - but I don't really find alpines that exciting, do you? I quite like pinks which are suited to these conditions but I've go planty of thosevelsrwhere.
Can anyone suggest a few genuses that are suited to these conditions?
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