lesley drinkwater, My garden (RG42)

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lesley drinkwater

About me
I LOVE my garden and many of my happiest times, like so many others, are just pottering. I've built up a fair collection of good to outstanding plants. I collect perennial salvias, penstemons, grasses, asters, although I've ditched some I found don't do so well. I have something in flower, from early January starting with Hellebores in a good year, and ending with my salvias in early December. Gardeners' World filmed my garden in April 2008 and Richard Holmes, the producer, declared it to be a little gem, although the footage wasn't used. I love discovering new good plants and introducing others to them. I get so much pleasure out of all the bees and birds that come into the garden too, so I rarely use pesticides. We have a pond with goldfish, but the frogs and other pond life use it too. Between them, the frogs and visiting hedgehogs do a pretty good job on the slugs.

Gardening expertise
Very Keen

Biggest gardening accomplishments
Being filmed for Gardeners' World on BBC2, although the footage was never used.

Biggest gardening frustrations
vine weevils seedlings damping off

The gardening project I am currently working on
We are gradually developing a veg. patch in the front garden. My husband's making a chicken run there too. We also grow a lot of veg in the local council's redundant recycling boxes.

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Bergenia cordifolia
Wed. 12th January 2011 12:09