Oh dear, the drought certainly hurt our newly planted community garden
Oh dear, the drought certainly hurt our newly planted community garden. The fledgling plants didn’t get chance to bed in before they were hit with a prolonged drought. The gardeners tried for a while to ferry water in from home, but it wasn’t sustainable.
The water problems in the Welcome Centre didn’t help and the promised recycled water butt didn’t materialise either. Never mind, the beauty of gardening we can start again when the rain comes back.
Some things did survive. We can learn from that, and plant more of those in our future gardens. Strangely, short lawn grass couldn’t cope but the taller ornamental grass hung in there. Verbena, Sedums and Erigeron thrived.
Sea Daisys flowered early enough to miss the drought, and although wilting, will come back with some rain. The real survivor in my garden has been the Sea Thistle (Eryngium); it self-seeded in the gravel and thrived on nothing.
The flowers at the Queens Garden (Memorial Hall) did really well, with some careful watering by our volunteer gardener – thank you Anne! The four o’clock flower, or Mirabilis Jalapa, put on a great show. The Lambs Ears hung on too, although the flowers were affected.
The spring bulbs are in the shops too – it’s time to get the daffs in again. Now where did we put those empty pots?
