
11/08/2025
My current favourite spot in the garden, a soft textural, scrubby area of planting that’s always buzzing, a-flutter and gently swooshing. I find it a lovely place to sit awhile and take a wee peer into a micro universe.
The Erigeron daisies are gradually colonising the concrete slabs (thankfully!) and mingling and blending the edges of the beds which are largely Stipa Tenuissima grasses and lots of herbs and flowering perennials, such as my loved Gaura, nurtured from seed and overwintered (yay!). This whole area was formerly under slabs and is raised so the ‘soil’ is really just largely dusty compacted sand. Replacing the substrate or amending the soil in a big way wasn’t something I wanted to / could do, so after dawdling a while in indecision, I was inspired by some very clever gardeners and began planting it up with plants that I hoped would cope, perhaps even like it here. It’s filling out now and there’s some very welcome self seeding going on too. It’s an ongoing experiment! Not everyone’s idea of beauty, but to me it’s a total joy.
Swipe to the end for the before, a year and a half ago and just after we moved in…. Slab heaven 😂