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One side of my allotment is bounded by the allotment hedge onto the main road. This is not a pretty sight, straggly and cut back not properly laid so very leggy and gappy.
I've long wanted to grow new plants into it but there is a bramble barrier and this year have at last had the time to start on getting it sorted out, have done about a third and have not got the soil at the base of the hedge in a fit state for planting. I put in some hawthorne and wild rose at one end and had visions of establishing a huge rambling rose through the hedge, there are enough oak and ash semi-trees to take it and yesterday at the farmers market one of the plantsmen had a Rambling Rector rose for sale, £8.50 for a beautiful established plant. Am on the dole but even so, went mad and paid up.
I shall plant it on Monday and wait impatiently for next year when I'll start to see the beauty of this rose as it goes on its 20ft way, producing clouds of white, semi-double fragrant flowers that bees adore apparently.
One day I'll sit back and think this allotment is now maintenance only but there's always something new to do, and after finding a load of stone thrown out by another allotment holder, a rockery is being planned even now and still haven't got a proper pond sorted out to add to all the veg and fruit growing.
You never know how things will turn out do you? How to predict that I'd become besotted with an allotment, my piece of heaven!
Sue
I've long wanted to grow new plants into it but there is a bramble barrier and this year have at last had the time to start on getting it sorted out, have done about a third and have not got the soil at the base of the hedge in a fit state for planting. I put in some hawthorne and wild rose at one end and had visions of establishing a huge rambling rose through the hedge, there are enough oak and ash semi-trees to take it and yesterday at the farmers market one of the plantsmen had a Rambling Rector rose for sale, £8.50 for a beautiful established plant. Am on the dole but even so, went mad and paid up.
I shall plant it on Monday and wait impatiently for next year when I'll start to see the beauty of this rose as it goes on its 20ft way, producing clouds of white, semi-double fragrant flowers that bees adore apparently.
One day I'll sit back and think this allotment is now maintenance only but there's always something new to do, and after finding a load of stone thrown out by another allotment holder, a rockery is being planned even now and still haven't got a proper pond sorted out to add to all the veg and fruit growing.
You never know how things will turn out do you? How to predict that I'd become besotted with an allotment, my piece of heaven!
Sue
It is vigorous but smells nice.
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