The Cottage Garden Diary

Hadrian's Wall

The front of the garden has about 150 meters of dry stone border walls .

The tops of the walls are planted with some alpines and a mix of other plants some of which i have no idea what they are.

The walls get very dry in the summer and the areas vary a lot with shade and sun, parts of the longer wall run under horse chess-nut trees and nothing grows there.

Closer look at some of the better areas and plants.

The Sempervivum Jovibarba Allionii

This is doing quite well and is in the wall south facing, part shade near but under the

Horse chess-nut.

Lampranthus Pink

This has only been in since the end of last year and hasn't flowered,it stood the winter well but then again the winter was very mild.

Cyclamen Ivy Ice Deep Rose

This is doing quite well and is in a shaded part of the wall that gets little direct sun in the summer.

Lychnis Alpina

This is small slow to grow but doing well next to the Cyclamen.

Thyme Camphor

doesThis is in the sunnier part of the wall and should cover as well as the Snow in summer .

Problem Areas

The areas of the wall with the most shade are a problem,nothing but grass growing,but i keep the grass it helps bind the wall together.

This part of the wall is very shaded.

This area of the wall has little in it and is shrouded in darkness in the summer by this big bushy horse Chess-nut.

Other areas of the wall

Sunny part, snow in summer does well

This is in good sunny area and plants are fine

This is in partial shade, but given up on

Above three areas are fairly sunny but do not have a lot of room for soil and are mostly stony.

The walls vary from sunny,partial sunny,partial shade,shady and pretty much across the spectrum so plants of all environments suited to a Scottish East coast climate at 150 meters should be fine.