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Oct 9, 2016 10:35 AM CST
Name: Lee-Roy
Bilzen, Belgium (Zone 8a)
Region: Belgium Composter Region: Europe Ferns Hostas Irises
Lilies Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge)
Well we went to take a closer look at the patch. It's really overgrown with weeds, bushes and trees so we only managed to go around the perimeter. It'll take alot of work to just get it cleared...And from the looks of it the soil is sandy/loamy, so quite different from the heavy clay I have now.
Good news: I can safely grow many of the bulbs and free drainage loving plants I love. Less good news: it'll take alot of work and amendement to get the moisture loving plants to thrive.
Third photo is a look at the farm field at the back from another patch for sale.


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As for garden design, I've already come up with a sketch of what it possibly could be, althought I might have to adjust it since the real length is 10m shorter than what they said online.

Dark grey block to the left is the house (max size in regard to the garden), smaller dark grey is a (potting/propagation)shed, green areas are lawn (my SO wanted one so badly to play with the dog, but I added another one closer to the house and deck for relaxing), yellow area is a low growing wildflower meadow (I want to do something for wildlife...), the larger light blue in the back is also a 'meadow', but more contemporary with middle high grasses, a few deciduous trees (circles) and interplanted with Camassia, Iris sibirica and Dactylorhiza..., light grey are paths and rest is free space to plant. Boundaries preferably a (evergreen) hedge with espaliers here and there, but not at the back (or maybe 2 foot at most) to keep it open to the landscape and embrace that wide view.

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As for another update:

My tulip bulbs have gone in the ground. I said I'd wait until next month, but I got so excited and impatient.

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Some of my Hostas are flowering at the moment

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