A year ago, we started the
succulent project. This was to cover an area in the back of the house which got little or no sun. The soil is very poor, with only a shallow layer of good soil above clay. Succulents have shallow roots and grow without a fuss, hence they won the lottery to be planted here!
This Christmas we decided to complete the project. Within a year the succulents had multiplied and we got many more plants for free! We started off first by removing all from the bed and dividing them in individual plants. Then we worked in a sort of a pattern to use all the ones we had.
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| Multiple Semperviums |
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| Succulents in a row |
As with all good garden beds, we topped this arrangement off with a natural coloured mulch. The effect was quite pleasing.
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| View 1 |
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| View 2 |
The aforementioned cacti found a spot at the end of this bed. This is the route that our dogs love to use to wander into the beds. Hopefully no more!
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| Cacti |
We were able to harvest a cucumber this year. It took a long time for one of the zillion flowers to become something edible! I also harvested loads of mint. I am thinking about controlling it's growth though, need to be ruthless and leave only one or two stems to continue the crop.
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| Cucumber |
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| Mint |
And finally, here is a picture of the Russell Lupin that we bought at Christmas! In the time we have had it, I have discovered it's seed pods (after flowering) are very harmful to dogs. So the time has come to relocate it the front of the house where none of them can get to it.
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| Lupin |
