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• Boundary Hedge (Main Road, Hall Spout and Beck Side)
  • Hedge improvement works – remove sycamore and other self-seeded unwanted trees/plants and add mixed hedge plants

1. How do we deal with the fence falling and ivy growing over it on Beck Side – do we have to take it down completely or can we repair what we have?

First thing to do is to spray the ivy with Roundup weedkiller to remove the ivy then we could look at the fence it should be repairable 

2. What hedge plants do you recommend for the boundary?

Crataegus commonly called hawthorn

Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)

Holly Ilex 

Planted in the autumn winter as bare-root whips 

3. Potential to lay the hedge sidewards – how would this work?

We can look at layering the hedge, we would have to cut out some of the older stems and use the new stems to layer 

4. When is the best time of year to work on this? Winter 2022 after cutting out older stems this winter 

• Entrance
  • Renovate stone walling entrance – possibly extend to each side
  • House Name signage and post box
  • Electric Gates
  • Yes we would need to find a similar stone and could include a postbox and sign, the sign could be in the wall as part of the wall. We can have a look at the stone on my next visit. With gates for now adding some 4 core armored cable to the gate would be useful

• Front Drive
  • Estate fencing on either side – currently only erected on one side
  • Gravel drive – Hoggin to be done once building works are complete
  • Turning circle with central focal point
  • Shrub screening from driveway at entry point on both sides – currently only planted one side
  • Remove dead/unwanted tree/shrubs/plants
  • Renovate rose beds by adding further plants and border
  • Border along single story outbuilding once building works complete to compliment flower bed in front of house
  • Climber on arched brickwork in front bed

1. Suggestions for tree/plants in central focal point – edged by stone or hedging?

Liquidambar

catalpa bignonioides aurea

Tulip tree Liriodendron

magnolia grandiflora

I attached some pictures of our trees which are around £80 to £100 

2. Suggested plants for rose bed improvement/border?

I would underplant with salvia in groups 

Salvia New Caradonna

Salvia micro. Trebah Lilac White

Salvia Icing Sugar 

Salvia Royal Bumble 

Salvia Embers Wish

3. Planting scheme for right hand side of drive when entering

As its in shade it will be the same plants as the shade area – See list below 

• Front Lawn

•                     Local company has already sprayed with a weed killer and feed

•                     Spread lime

• Woodland Area/Moat

• Create path along the moat
• Plant woodland plants throughout – eg ferns
• Plant along border with grass: trees/shrubs for privacy eg rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas
• Create compost area

1. Which woodland plants and bulbs?

Suggested plants 

2. Should we clear area ie ivy, nettles etc?

Yes if you clear the area by leveling the existing weeds etc and covering with Ground sheeting 

• Side of house
  • Create formal Georgian/Medieval Garden Beds
  • Separate garden bed from entertainment area with a diagonal hedge – possibly elm
  • Allow garden to be seen from side window of house and also from the kitchen by an arch cut through the hedge
  • Design and plant out beds using hedge borders and possibly the old font as a central point –  design to reflect the age of the house
  • Climber to go on side wall of house
  • Path along the house the allow access to the side window/door and rear of property – Yorkshire Stone

• Entertainment area
  • Pave – Yorkshire Stone, including along side of house
  • Brick gas BBQ with covered areas, fire pit
  • Potential for Georgian greenhouse
  • Create productive garden area
  • Include Mediterranean plant theme – climbing fruit trees
• Back Paddock leading to village hall
  • Hedge all 4 sides
  • Structural planting eg Parrotia Persica, Amelanchier, Liquidambar, Alnus
  • Large shed for mowers and equipment
  • Potting Shed
  • Log Store (or in woodland garden area)
• Side garden where clothes line/ trampoline etc currently are:
  • Grass to remain
  • After the brick archway, continue drive stone and sets around to gate or cobbled drive
  • Garage turning area
  • Retaining wall up to field at the back
  • New bushy trees or hedge at top level
  • Non formal bed planted between grass and hedge – succulents?
  • Create arch in box hedging to see through to beech tree and woodland garden
• Work Area
  • Concrete ground area beyond gate around outbuildings
• Woodland Garden Under Beech Tree
  • Suggested plants for garden
  • Ajuga
  • Alchemilla mollis,
  • Arundinaria (Bamboo),
  • Acuba,
  • Berginia,
  • Brunnera
  • Epimedium,
  • Hedrera Colchica,
  • Lamium,
  • Pachysandra,
  • Pulmonaria,
  • Lonicera Pileata,
  • Skimmia Japonica,
  • Vinca,
  • Hydrangea lacecap if  the shade is not to heavy  
  • Viburnum Davidii.
  • epimedium
  • aquilegia
  • Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’
  • Digitalis purpurea
  • Acanthus mollis
  • Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’
  • Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae
  • Tiarella ‘Spring Symphony
  • Dryopteris wallichiana
  • Polypodium vulgare
  • Cyclamen coum
• Field with moat
  • Leave sections to grow with a path mowed through
  • High level fence along neighbours back gardens up to corner needs looking at
  • Continue hedge along all neighbours fencing
  • Ornamental tree planting
  • Create pond area where it naturally floods
  • Plant plants that like damp conditions eg Rheum, Hosta’s, Primulas, Gunneras
  • Wildflower meadow
• Orchard
  • Design layout of orchard area
  • Come up with list of trees wanted  ie Apples, Pears, Plums, Mulberry trees, walnut trees

and medlar trees