South Glebe
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The South Glebe area is a relatively small strip of a bed just to the south of Winter Stream : the edge of Terra Cognita before one faces the 'unknown terrors' of Terra Incognita, the rest of the glebe [in practice we have only used 15 to 20% of the glebe to create today's - 2019 - garden]. It is 120 m2 in area :
This bed is quite shady because of the young [teenage?] oaks in Terra Incognita and, now, the weeping willow that we planted in the area close to the stream. The soil is silty clay that stays damp virtually all year round.
We planted a golden weeping willow, Salix x sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma' in the spring of 2015 by hacking out a square metre of bare land from the weed-infested area. We later learnt that much of the infestation was water hogweed, described by some as "the most poisonous plant in the UK". It took the rest of 2015 and much of 2016 to bring the area under control and planting only really started in 2018 while residual weed seeds were allowed to germinate in order to be killed [still an ongoing process!]. The longer term objective is to create a bed that will provide background to the view from the house across the formal garden and subsequent beds. A mix of herbaceous perennials and some shrubs should do the trick.
Full details of the plants can be found in the South Glebe plant list and the context of this area within the garden can be found on the Plan and Areas page.
