Finally, I got some free time to clean up the backyard. The backyard is actually very small. It has only the basement entrance, which I wrote about recently, my new onion/lettuce bed, and a retaining wall area which, no matter how much I try can't get an actual theme or a purpose other than being a retaining wall.
Last year I cleaned this whole area, added a tile border, and planted new plants wanting to make a rock garden. I thought this would work well since this side drains really fast, the soil is mixed with rocks and bricks, and the sun burns it fairly easily. Well, I can now say that this plan fell to bits.
In the place of the tile border is now my new onion bed and most of the plants which I bought last year did not survive the winter. Although all of them were frost-resistant I'm guessing the drought killed them and since this year April was very warm all of my old plants reappeared and the garden turned back to wild/meadow looking. I tried to make a meadow-style garden a few years back, but due to the drought and extreme winters, the plants I've sown and planted just wouldn't grow so I thought I'd try something else.
One of the plants that I wanted to grow was Hesperis Matronalis aka Sweet rocket. Although, this is in some countries considered an invasive plant, here it is not native and we don't have them in the gardens. I was ecstatic when I managed to grow it in my garden, and it started actually spreading around. I thought I have achieved my plan of covering the area with a purple beauty, only to be disappointed when every year I got fewer and fewer plants until eventually last year they were growing in just one small area, and I had only a couple of plants. This is why I gave up on them and went with finding a different garden style.
But as always, the retaining wall had other ideas in its mind, and this year Dame's rocket is back and stronger than ever. The plants are everywhere... Read more here
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