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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:00am on 10/03/2009
Or, when the card comes up in August, make the planning decisions and write them on it then move the card into a later slot for the buying/planting action :-) Though given the amount of hard work involved (top planting tip btw - I read it at the time and must have internalised at least part) I should probably just pick an early autumn weekend and write 'gardening' in my diary! What with setting up raised beds 'n' all.

I'd also like to plant some climbers, clematis or something, against my shady south=facing fence. Probably in pots.
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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 10:12am on 10/03/2009
Do you have a big tree or something casting the shade? Because south facing sites are usually full sun. Not that this is a problem for clematis - they like their roots nice and cool in the shade and their heads in the sun higher up.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:20am on 10/03/2009
If I might be permitted an enormous -Doh!-
It's the far side of the fence that faces south. The side in my garden faces north :-) I must think of it as south-facing because it's on the south side of my garden...

I think that's why I thought some clematis would work - nice and shady at the bottom, also not much sun at the top though unless it makes it over the top of the fence.
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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 10:37am on 10/03/2009
Ooo - my mum had a couple of clematis that flowered in full shade, one was called Nelly Moser and the other was Barbara Jackman. The Nelly Moser had big tea plate sized flowers in white with a candy pink strip down the centre of each petal.

Sorry - I shall stop the vicarious designing of your garden. I do tend to ramble on about plants...
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