Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Bog garden no.1

The chamomile patch was really nice in the beginning, but then the whole thing kept collapsing sideways as the plants got taller, so it was time for a change. Initially I quite fancied a pond, but then I decided to make a bog garden. It's all bog round this neck of the woods(and woods too), so I thought that if a bog garden was made, things might move in fairly quickly. Behind the bog garden, I planted french and english lavender. In it, I planted cotton grass, snake grass and a couple of things that got eaten immediately and I can't remember what they were called. The frogs moved in before too long, and the lavender attracted loads of bees and butterflies. A birdbath and a hanging bird table brought lots of different types of bird; sparrows, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, siskins, greenfinches, chaffinches and my favourite, goldfinches.








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