Pacific Northwest Gardening: Taming the wild garden, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
And here is the one I meant to post -
This is half way up the lasagne bed - but it is where I have managed to widen it out to its full width of about 6.5mtrs - I have planted the first of the cornus canadensis in the middle area - I have several more growing on in the greenhouse and they will eventually come towards the camera, in a diagonal. Behind that is pachysandra terminalis - and again, there is another 60 of these in the greenhouse I am growing on (another avid gardener thing: you buy one, take a dozen cuttings, and congratulate yourself on how much money you save! Not taking into account the greenhouse cost/the time/the materials etc). They will be planted towards the trees. I want a large low flush of glossy leaves moving back towards the grey of the trees. The canes at the back of the pachys. mark the second pathway, and the pachysandra planting will pick up probably a metre or so infront of the trees and then move up and behind.

I am taking up some of the large ferns from down in our woodland (polystichon) to bring up and give some height in the planting behind the trees. (They grow in huge masses down there, so I won't be stripping it). I'm also planning on digging up some of the bluebells from an area in the field that the sheep keep grazing off and bringing them into this area.