Also habe ich diese Bank am Boden meiner Auffahrt gebaut und sie mit Glühbirnen gepflanzt, die im Frühling sehr schön aussahen. Streut Blütensamen und pflanzte dort ein paar Ersatzpflanzen. Ich möchte, dass es sich nur mit Vegetation und Blumen füllt. Es sieht ein Chaos aus.
Wenn ich es einfach verlasse, wird es dann irgendwann einfach ausfüllen und gut aussehen ???
Jeder Ratschläge, weil es hässlicher AF ist.
Von: emergency_cake_yum
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Put some plants in, like actual plants bought in a pit. Bulbs are great but only last a short while in early spring
Edit, pot not pit
You have got too much going on. The aim isn’t to “fill it up” with stuff as that is not an ordered garden
Here’s what I would do :-
1. Dig it all out and remove the top layer of mud. 2. put down a new top soil mix of 1-part general purpose compost to 3-part top soil and lay down. 3. pick 2-3 ever green shrubs to put across the row evenly (eg one each end, one in middle, or 2 at the 2/4 and 3/4 marks)
Then do seasonal bedding plants in between so they have their own areas and you know what ur removing and replacing each time you do new plants
This sort of structured planning will lead to a much nicer and well ordered flower bed with stuff going on it both hot and cold months
Finally lay down wood chips on exposed soil to create a perfect finish and aid moisture retention
PS: if you leave it it will become a wild mess of weeds
If you just leave it, it will fill with vegetation, but the vegetation will be weeds. Up to you on how you feel about that!
For a ‘polished’ nice look, I’d weed it out, clean up all the dead leaves/stuff, and then get some perennials/other plants to fill the space. A bag of compost or two as well will help both put nutrients into the bed, and make everything look a bit more polished as the ‘backdrop’ will be darker and simpler. Make sure the plants will suit the soil/light levels- if you give us some info on that we might be able to give you some ideas.
Also look into bulb layering- you can get bulbs of different plants which flower at different times you can extend the season they are looking nice!
I think it shows real promise. It takes time to establish that lush, full of plants, look.
Keep pulling out the weeds – by which I mean, any plant you don’t like the look of. If it’s pretty then it’s not a weed!
If you want quicker results, and are ok to spend some money on it, plant more of what you want. Other than that though, I’m afraid you’ll need to be patient.
Wildflowers never turn out like the picture on the box in my experience. I can see some wildflowers and a few ‘weeds.’ but I don’t think they’ll completely fill the space. The foxgloves won’t flower until next year and my crocosmia are only just getting ready to flower because it’s been so dry. You could try some bedding plants inbetween if you want some colour for the rest of the season.
Removing the Pentaglottis, Rumex and various self-seeded grasses will probably make a significant difference.
Planting up with some perennials which you can easily propagate with seeds or cuttings can help fill out the border with relatively low cost for the area.
Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’, Nepeta ‘x faassenii ‘Purrsian Blue’ and maybe even some Saponaria or Lithodora to creep out and fill in gaps could really help, as well as provide lots of help to pollinators.
I guess you have to look at your garden as a whole. Is the rest of it very showy? Or is it a bit rough a round the edges and a bit natural?
It’s all good spending time digging up doing this and that but if it’s not gonna suit the overall look, there’s nothing wrong in planting a few filler bushes, and seeding each year with some wild flowers or whatever you think my suit the look.
I’m all for a showy nice garden, my neighbour’s is. It’s looks great, but as for mine, I like a more wilder look, I’m okay with a few weeds amongst it all and happy to let it go wild for a year or two before giving it a good tidy. But like anything, it’s a matter of personal taste and choice.
Might take a year or two op, but you’ll get the look your after. 👍🏻
Plant real plants – cover with a couple of bags of landscaping bark – job done
You need structural plants. Woody evergreens to give all year round height and shape.
If you ‘just leave it’ it’ll fill up with weeds. Yes, you’ll get a few plants that you want coming through but the plants we term weeds are far more resilient and will take over.
Bulbs, while nice, are generally short-lived in terms of flowering. I’d concur with a few others on here who say you need to buy a few structural plants, evergreens, and then maybe plant a few bedding plants around them.
Or, if you’d come on here and said you had ‘re-wilded’ it, they’d be some who’d fawn over it!
You need;
Echium
Cornflower
Catananche
Forget me nots
You need a ground cover to make it harder for weeds to settle. Periwinkle, yellow archangel, ajuga etc. Add in some spring bulbs, ferns maybe if it doesn’t get a lot of sun. Lady’s mantle, geranium Rozanne and Crane’s bill geraniums are all perennials that will grow large enough to each cover a 40×40 cm area and will grow in sun and partial shade. Plant some nasturtium seeds in March/April and it will look absolutely wonderful.
Does it get much sun?
What type of soil is it?
What colour scheme do you want?
It’s probably quite dry there next to the hedge, and we’ve had a dry year anyway. That’s probably a big part of why your seeds didn’t germinate en masse.
You don’t say if it’s in sun or shade. Make sure to choose something suitable for dry sun (rosemary, sage, catmint,…) or dry shade (alchemilla, ferns like dryopteris felix mas,…) whichever applies.
Get several of each plant. If you plant in spring make sure to water them for the first few months until the roots are well established. If you plant in the early autumn, you’ll need to water much less because of the winter wet, but watch out with that hedge in case it’s actually still dry there and they do need water. Plants suited to dry sites will be fine once they get their roots down, but they will need water to establish in the beginning.
Put down some weed membrane and use these from Amazon (Bakulyor Weed Control Membrane Pegs) Plant what you want to see . Put some lavender in to stop cats sh*ting in it .