As we come to the beginning of the 2024 season I have decided to move more content away from the social media site formerly known as Twitter and set up this blogging site as an annexe to our website which is hideously out of date.
We have made some changes in the garden including the construction of a new 24ft x 12ft greenhouse…
We also drained, cleared and refilled the pond with rainwater from our 4000 litre storage system. It no longer feeds the bog garden and so does not need topping up every other day. It is also no longer infested with weeds (unlike the wildlife bank behind it which is full of insect friendly wild plants) . I will do a separate article on this.
We replaced almost all the seating and reused the materials to make a raised bed in the space we created behind the greenhouse (using the fact it’s 12ft wide and the old houses there were 14 and 16ft long running in the opposite direction. More on that later too!
The opportunities the new greenhouse presents will allow us to grow our favourite plants (principally passiflora and hedychium) in better ways, but may also lead us to phase out some more troublesome forms. It’s going to be an interesting year and I will try to record it here mostly in the form of short reports but with the occasional over the top piece!
Devon Subtropical Garden 