Tuesday 29 May 2012

New sites [for the Knights who say Ni!]

I have my eye on the sorely neglected raised beds/walls next to the Job Centre on Camberwell Green. Someone gardened there at one point, there's some box and euonymous amongst the weeds, bottles and other detritus. This could be a great spot to relocate a bunch of yellow flowering plants, including fennel [which is SO great, but does need watering when it is first transplanted or it sulks to death] and golden rod. This would jolly up my time on the no.12.
 
Chef Solaire -  thinking of the Stories Mews patch, I can pull up some mint [a thug in open soil, but will cope with shade] and some michaelmas daisies [lilac flowers, v tough, copes with dry] and probably some white daisies [leucanthemum, tough, but wont want to be baked] and a pot of crocosmia [tough, self seeds, should need sun but seems ok with half-shade], I think I could also part with a pale pink hardy geranium [tough, self-seeds, ok in shade].

Also - I would love to make over that raised tree pit at the end of Stories Mews/bordering Champion Hill or is Dog Kennel Hill already? Huge potential for a maintainable marvellous flower bed. Atm it is so dry as to be undiggable but maybe it will rain as the temperatures dip over the weekend...

2 comments:

Clive said...

go for it! good luck!

chefsolaire said...

Hi La G

I think much of stories mews is done (though bit at the top on the left needs some more stuff - have put in a box(?) rose campion and some sunflowers

I woudl be for having a go at the bit you describe junction stories mews and denmark hill. We coudl dig it over and plant in one go - then maybe work back towards Camberwell grove.

Off on school trip and back on 6th (half term). There are people in stores mews who might help - Nick has cleared a good bt and will plant up. Girl whose name I don't know is watering the top bit

Nick