Since my last update on our work on the garden at The Belvedere Centre (3 April 2012) we have had lots of rain, which has watered in everything we’ve planted.

By a combination of avoiding some of the showers and putting up with getting wet, we’ve done more weeding and tidying and have planted up more of the garden.

The shady border and sunny border are now complete. We’ve added more ferns and other shade loving plants to the shady border (including Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum'”, Epimedium x warleyense and Beesia calthifolia from Harveys Garden Plants) and mulched the bed with well rotted bark to create as near to a woodland floor as we can.

Shady border, looking west

Western border, looking north.

We’ve done work on the western border, filling gaps between existing shrubs with hardy perennials that were given to us as a donation, and a couple of shrubs: Ribes sanguineum “King Edward VII” (Flowering Currant) and Amelanchier canadensis. Both will have pretty spring flowers and the Amelanchier will provide edible fruit and lovely autumn leaf colour. And now to the centre of the garden. This requires some landscaping work but we’ve made a start by weeding and marking out the line of the paths through the centre of the garden.

Read the next update about the garden.

Weeding the centre of the garden

Weeding the centre and western border

Centre of the garden – path marked out

Tulips in the car park