Oddquine
27-Jun-08, 21:28
I moved in here in June 2007 to a garden which hadn't been looked at for five years. I have weeded, pruned and am currently still removing all the rosebay willow herb, nettles, docks, raspberries and dandelions still appearing as a result of not quite getting all the bitties up, but it is now fairly clear to be planting other stuff.
But I have a problem..........shallow topsoil........as the garden was originally all chucky stoned because it was intended to be an old buddies no maintenance one, there seems to be topsoil only to a depth of about a garden trowel blade and half the handle with blue plasticy stuff underneath and what looks like broken slate under that.
There is an established rampant hydrangea, a couple of potentillas, some shrub I don't recognise but is quite nice, climbing roses, honeysuckle and cotoneaster , crocosmia and a hosta already, but there is a fair skelp of the garden to be filled with something.
Can anyone tell me of any shrub/plant which doesn't need a lot of depth for the roots to fill up the empty spaces?
I'd really like a paeony, a lilac, a burnet/scottish rose.....and southernwood and lavender..................but am prepared to get tubs to grow them if necessary....... or, if I can get topsoil, I'd be prepared to raise the whole area.
I haven't had a garden for about ten years......and wasn't very knowledgeable then.....and I don't see much in books about the depths of soil required for planting.
So any help suggestions will be gratefully received.
Garden is fairly sheltered and facing more or less down Lybster towards the sea.......whatever direction that is! :o
But I have a problem..........shallow topsoil........as the garden was originally all chucky stoned because it was intended to be an old buddies no maintenance one, there seems to be topsoil only to a depth of about a garden trowel blade and half the handle with blue plasticy stuff underneath and what looks like broken slate under that.
There is an established rampant hydrangea, a couple of potentillas, some shrub I don't recognise but is quite nice, climbing roses, honeysuckle and cotoneaster , crocosmia and a hosta already, but there is a fair skelp of the garden to be filled with something.
Can anyone tell me of any shrub/plant which doesn't need a lot of depth for the roots to fill up the empty spaces?
I'd really like a paeony, a lilac, a burnet/scottish rose.....and southernwood and lavender..................but am prepared to get tubs to grow them if necessary....... or, if I can get topsoil, I'd be prepared to raise the whole area.
I haven't had a garden for about ten years......and wasn't very knowledgeable then.....and I don't see much in books about the depths of soil required for planting.
So any help suggestions will be gratefully received.
Garden is fairly sheltered and facing more or less down Lybster towards the sea.......whatever direction that is! :o