Pen-Y-Bont A new portable garden layout

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Re: Pen-Y-Bont A new portable garden layout

Post by philipy » Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:56 am

Looks wonderful. If I hadn't known I would never have guessed that it isn't in the garden.
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Post by ge_rik » Sat Aug 28, 2021 12:02 pm

Does it live outside when not being exhibited?

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Post by steveh99 » Sat Aug 28, 2021 1:21 pm

Yep, it lives outside in the garden all year round, set up as you see in the pictures. It's had a couple of years now to develop so its been through about eight seasons of weather from ice & snow, frost, torrential downpours and long hot spells. Some alpines have not done so well and others have thrived and spread. The mind your own business does not do too well, it doesn't like icy weather or hot dry spells. The Raoulia is very sensitive to changes in weather and the original large mound has largely withered, but remnants of it remain amongst the other plants. Only one Sagina remains and the Scelranthus have gone. The Tymes and the Leptinellas are very hardy and prolific. The fir trees require regular pruning to keep the height down and I do this by removing individual shoots rather than with shears. Good job my other hobby is gardening.

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Re: Pen-Y-Bont A new portable garden layout

Post by FWLR » Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:53 am

I am in the same mind as philipy. It just looks like it is laid down in the garden.... :thumbright:

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Re: Pen-Y-Bont A new portable garden layout

Post by steveh99 » Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:43 pm

Well first we had the bitter cold and frosts before Christmas and then rain almost everyday since so the layout has taken a bit of a battering. Today found that the birds had been having a fine old time ripping up the moss and other vegetation looking for food. Oh well, it's still two months to go before its first official outing at the Midlands Garden Rail show on 10/11th March so hopefully it will have recovered a bit by then. It never looks quite the same in any given month so Peterborough should be better. It is at its most floriferous in May/June.
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Re: Pen-Y-Bont A new portable garden layout

Post by Phil.P » Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:55 pm

How did it fair in the very hot, dry weather of 2022?

I am guessing you had to keep watering, and it stressed the plants badly.

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Re: Pen-Y-Bont A new portable garden layout

Post by steveh99 » Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:18 pm

It survived the summer much better than this winter, but I think it will recover, by 10th March??? It is easy enough to replace any plants that are past their best. Time will tell, but as in the real world, gardens are not their best before Spring gets well under way. Each month that passes changes the scene, so its appearance in Barrow Hill in September will be different from that in March.

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