So today I'm going to be planting up some grasses into the Exploding Atom Garden
These are going to go in the outer rim of the garden well it gets
really wild and woody and a bit kind of crazy and chaotic we've got some
beautiful specimens here I'm gonna move them over and as always put them into
position first, talk you through why I've chosen them and then commit them to the ground. So I'm
gonna get my gloves on and get a wiggle on! So welcome to the outer rim of
exploding at a garden! I don't know why but it always sounds really rude, anyway I've
been using my Hori Hori knife to dig over some of the weeds that have appeared with past
few weeks what I'm gonna do now is take the grasses bring them as such arrange
them we've got things like privet which usually ago as a hedge but I've got a
specimen here that I've grown but a little sapling and then gonna let that
bush out and go a bit wild and wonderfulnow I'm gonna get
the grasses start to arrange them but the key here is wilderness; it's wild, it's woody
there's a lots going on there's lots of height and movement but that's what I'm looking for
with my planting plan. So I'm just gonna introduce you to a few of
these beauties that got this wild woodland the border so we've got things like the
Molinia here some of grass it's slow growing Clump forming won't take over
we've got Calamagrostis 'Karl Foester' there which will spread a bit gives us a
bit of height, beautiful oaty heads we've got some of the Nepeta here and it's a
strange one called Nepeta nepeta apparently and its a catmint, smells of
mint this one's got really small lime green leaves so I'm gonna blend that in
we've got this the Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning light' again clump forming
the blades of grass I've got beautiful white vein running down the middle but
as with a lot of these they're gonna get quite big so when you see me space them
out I'm doing that for their future growth no show garden planting here!
Don't get carried away with packing it full make it look you know like its been there
for years because these things are gonna grow!
Got these grasses Pennisetum orientale 'Karly Rose' beautiful beautiful always
use that in my show gardens just love it to bits. I'm going to space these out dig the holes
pop them in make sure they're in the right place and I'll keep you posted as
we start to plant up this, the outer ring!
So it cant al be action and drama and structure of the grasses we're gonna
need some steady eddies will help fill the gaps in between and soften the bed
so you don't want all of one height or all of another you need a graduation which
helps innately for you to be able to see the layers it slows you down and it's
just better design so I'm going to be using some Lamium here which is a
woodland plants of beautiful yellow flowers real tough as old boots this
finishing here has got a variation on the leaf will match in with the
Miscanthus sinensis we've Waldstenia which is related to the strawberry
family this again have beautiful yellow flowers of spring it's ground cover map
warning it will just creep its way around and then last but not least we've
got this Crosocmia and this is a yellow cultivar called Paul Davidson
lovely now this gives great texture with these strap like leaves we're also
getting beautiful yellow flowers again tough as old boots happily multiply over
years to come I can lift it, split it, leave it, do whatever I want with it, super tough
and a great plant because it contrasts between the blades in the grass and the
ground cover so its about the midpoint.
So one of my garden Ninja top tips on planting out fresh border like this is
to move your edge plants further away from the border so it's quite common
if we use this plant pot as an examples for people to stick and right against the
edge so that plants going to going to grow probably two three or four times its
size so I've moved it in it will allow it to spread and then I've got a clean
edge as well so you don't want to run them in you've got to give them enough
space to breathe so just finished the first bed and all the plants have been watered.
Like I said it's really hot and muggy I've got a proper sweat on we're gonna move on to the next bed can
lay them out almost symmetrically you might think why we're doing that with a
natural planting scheme of exploding us and garden is slightly different in that
it's all based on symmetry even though going from wild woody
theme still want some control so I'm going to mirror this bed so you walk
through them it's like walking through a reflection of the wild woods.
So there we have it another section of the exploding us and gardens been
completed but there's still plenty more to do more video guys to follow if
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