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A practical layout for growing your own
Well as the wet weather continued unabated, limiting our progress on landscaping works, we did however manage to make some progress with the layout to the new Vegetable garden.
A simple but structured area layout was agreed featuring ornamental planting on the front perimeter with Box hedging (Buxus sempervirens) and two very mature but stunning Holly standards (or ‘lollipops’) at entrance contrasting nicely with the perimeter planting at the sides of Christmas box and Himalayan Birch trees.
The planted areas have been raised and here we have used natural untreated Larch boards to create the raised planting structures. Larch is an extraordinary tough and long lasting timber, well capable of withstanding all that Irish weather and much more besides. The pathways will be top dressed with limestone pebble over a hardcore base which has been underlaid with a horticultural (weed barrier) liner. All in all, a simple but robust layout with many labour saving features incorporated from the outset. Functionality aside, the overall planting and structural finish including of course the Sandstone walling is an unusual but very attractive finish to what is a very appealling ‘Grow your own’ vegetable garden within this promising new garden project.
