A part of the restoration of the Double Herbaceous Border at Thornham Walled garden is about re stocking the border, with new plants, following the loss of many plants to time and being overrun by bindweed. With everything carefully dug out, split and potted on by staff, clients and volunteers over the autumn of 2016, January became the time to look carefully at what plant stock is already in place and what might be needed to fill the gaps.
A conversation with Jan, one of our trustees was held, Jan is passionate about plants and spoke of having stock in his garden that he has propagated, as well as having the need of many of his herbaceous plants being divided. We were invited to his home for an afternoon to assist with the division, and to take away plant material that was generated in the process.
A couple of hours later and the car boot was almost over flowing with crates, with carefully labelled plants, plants that keyed into three of the projects currently under way in the garden; the Herbaceous Border, the Masters Gate Border and the Rose Border.
The following few days saw a big team effort potting up and labelling the plants, Jan followed up the giving of his plants with emails showing them in flower, which has helped us worth them into planting scheme ideas. Watch this space as the border gets planted up with some exciting plant varieties in the coming months.
Posted by Phill, February 2017