I do not like my front garden very much. It's boring. It's going to change very soon! Having lived here for three years I find myself in need of a new project and this is it! So it's goodbye weed-infested lawn and the crazy-paving retaining slope, hello gravel garden with architectural planting. The challenge here is the wind and salt - just a few hundred metres from the English Channel and with nothing in between, I need to plan for all that nature can throw at me. I'll keep some of the plants - two forsythias and a tough evergreen viburnum that provides a good windbreak. I'll add further windbreak plants such as Laurus nobilis angustifolia and Baccharis patagonica, then set to with smaller groups of plants that can cope with exposed conditions, such as Phormium tenax, Euonymus japonicus, Yucca recurva and Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'. I can't wait to get going, but will have to wait until the end of term (1st April) to get stuck in to such a large project. In the meantime I can get planning. Here are some snaps of the front garden as it is at the moment...
