The Jungle
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The Jungle seems to have once been a shrubbery in the home garden. It lies just to the east of Main Road and slopes down from there, merging into the Wild Flower Meadow and is 92 m2 in area :
It enjoys some morning sun but is really either shaded by the cherry tree or the oak for much of the day. The soil is clay and quite dry because of the slope.
The area was largely ignored for the first three years. However, in 2019 the task of clearing it out while retaining the wild feel was started. Rampant old shrubs which are/were there include a squamous juniper [impossible to save], a choisya [severely cut back but probably in the wrong place as it is too shaded], a berberis [possibly Berberis verruculosa, cut back and retained], a magenta deciduous azalea [almost impossible to save but we will try] and a yellow leaved spirea. All of it was run through with brambles, a very vigorous honeysuckle and a lot of self-set trees including a hazel [retained], several hornbeams, some ash and a Japanese laurel. A hornbeam hedge has been started to separate the area from Main Road and some white-stemmed brambles, Rubus cockburnianus, have been planted to take the place of the thuggish wild blackberries.
A full list of the plants in this part of the garden is available in the Jungle plant list and the context of this area within the garden can be found on the Plan and Areas page.
