This week, we thought we’d share something from one of our customers, Barbara who lives in Sherborne, who bought some plants from Castle Gardens earlier in the year. Her front garden is very small and neat, so she didn’t have a lot of room to work with. Barbara wrote to us and asked us to share her story about her garden and how pleased she has been with her results this year!

“My front garden is only two feet deep and it has a Box Hedge, a Wisteria and a Rose. There was originally just a bit of flower bed behind the hedge – I think the previous owners planted annuals but I decided to place two large pots, a trough and a basket on legs. I planted them one at a time walking down to Castle Gardens choosing the lovely plants and then coming back home and planting them – a real pleasure. They have grown wonderfully well and I have noticed a blackbird likes to hide under them somewhere – how amazing is that? I moved here from a house with a large garden with so much work all the fun had gone out of gardening but now in this small space it has all come back to me!

I loved the choice of plants I made – I think I sent Steve the labels and they have been so successful I will use all the same ones again next year – meanwhile I wonder what I am going to do for the winter? I have got hold of a couple of dark green ivy plants that have been trained around a circle of wire about a foot in diameter and I think I’m going to use these with cyclamen but it depends what tempts me at the Garden Centre!”

Barbara from Sherborne

If you have a story you want to share then please email us at: castle@thegardeneronline.co.uk
Steve

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