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I recently demolished my garage in order to extend the garden and within the last few days I have broken out the garage floor slab. The idea is to create flowerbeds around the perimeter and to lay turf adjacent to that. The broken out flooring was only a couple of inches thick and once I have broken it down even more I was intending to put a topsoil/compost mix on top to create the flowerbeds. I am assuming that the broken up flooring will assist with drainage and stop the soil from simply washing away when it rains? I have several bags of Homebase topsoil and was intending to mix them in with compost of some sort. Can anyone offer advice and tell me if this is a good idea? I intend to plant climbing roses and honeysuckle at the far end of the garden because I have installed trellis at high level. Going forward I will be planting runner beans and tomatoes on the more exposed wall and pyracantha and other Sparrow friendly plants elsewhere. I will post some photos when I get home, in order to give a better idea of the layout. Hope someone can offer some advice. Thanks.
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
I read this entire thread the other evening and enjoyed seeing how everything is coming together.
Thanks for the update, it's looking great. Re your comment above - what are 'the ferals'?
Feral Pigeons aka 'The Pigeon Mafia'. There is a group of them that spends most of the day on the rooftop, where they wait for the Sparrows to arrive. Once the Sparrows arrive and start feeding, the Ferals fly down to plunder the fallen suet pellets. The Ferals act as the cleaning department for the garden and remove all the fallen scraps of food and seed. Here's a photo from last year featuring some of the gang giving a Wood Pigeon a hard time!
I should have guessed that really shouldn't have I?...doh!
i have made a pond as well as shelter and pathways
iv also put in lots more feeders
Sounds good. Have you taken any photos? Always good to see what other folk have done.
trying to but my camera is not working
so anoyed
The Grand Opening of the completed and refurbished SBS. It seems to be popular with the Spadgers and Starlings.
Goodness me, what a lot of work you have done, congrats on the official opening (or maybe that's Saturday when I cut the ribbon lol) Lovely to see the spadgers so active on the feeders. Well done MC, come springtime it will look even better with all the climbers and flowers; the grass looks very lush so the recent rain did its job lol
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Regards, Hazel
Very nice MC, you have put a lot of hard work and effort into your garden. Sit back and enjoy it now and watch your feathers friends.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Thanks Hazy. The little 'peek' into the laurel in the neighbouring garden was to show the location of the Robin nesting box. Mrs BR spends a lot of time scuttling along the wall near there and also in the laurel itself. I can't see if she's spending time in the box itself though. The hole in the fence next to the back gate is now covered by clematis and honeysuckle, so the area between the panels that I created for Robins is now an alternative, assuming she finds it.