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🐦🐦🐦 Three Pigeons Post: Great Oaks from little Acorns Grow

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  • Kate Holmes
  • Sal Wardeh
  • Anita
  • JP
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Sunday, 5th of July 2020
 
Led by Anita
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The Three Pigeons Plot, Small Group Mission Sunday 4 July: Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow.

Another Sunday morning at The Three Pigeons Plot with a whole host of small tasks completed that will have a big payoff in the months/years to come.

Central planting. Kate did an awesome job breaking the dry, stony ground near the centre of the bed in order to plant dwarf acers. She added leaf compost to improve the soil and also removed a huge quantity of stones as she was working, which will help to make the soil more workable going forward.

  • 4 x Japanese Maple 'Little Princess' (final size 1.5 x 1.5m).

  • 1 x Japanese Maple 'Phoenix' (final size 2.5 x 2m).

  • 1 x Acer Palmatumn 'Atropurpureum' (final size 2m tall).

    The Herb and Gin Garden. JP planted new herbs and insect friendly ground cover plants:

  • 3 x Curry Plants.

  • 2 x Wormwood (artemisia absinthia).

  • 3 x Teucriun Chemandra (Wall germander).

  • 3 or 4 x Ajuga reptans.

Anita added a dwarf Juniper to the 'Gin Garden' side of the plot and relocated a few smaller plants to height appropriate positions.

  • 1 x Dwarf Juniper (rosamarinus officianalis prostrate), brought from home.

The Gravel Garden. This is the very dry area surrounding the bollard. We are relocating all the stones and pebbles that we are collecting into this corner and the plan is to create a 'living carpet' of sempervirums in the adjacent shallow, dry soil. Sempervirums are low growing succulents that look like small rosettes. Also known as House Leeks or Hens & Chicks, they are mat-forming perennials that require little care or water. Small plantlets (or offsets) arise in a cluster around each parent plant and these will grow into new plants. Salwah planted around the Gravel Garden:

  • 3 sempervirums.

Anita planted up 8 small pots containing sempervirum plantlets to propogate at home.

Other Planting. Self seeded borage is springing up all over the plot. It has hairy, grey-green ovoid leaves and pretty blue flowers that are edible and can be added to salads. It is also a great plant for insects as the flowers replace their nectar every 12 hours. We are therefore trying to retain a Borage patch behind the drain cover and to get this going. Salwah relocated lots of seedlings springing up around the gravel garden to their new position and also planted out:

  • 2 x violas (brought from home.

  • 1 x vinca (brought from home).

In the Buccleuch Gardens Lock-up. Harry foraged for fallen branches and completed the twig filling for one pallet. JP worked to cut carpet into smaller strips to create uniform decorative edging rolls for the 'woolens' pallet of The Three Pigeons Insect Hotel.

Harry spent several hours and completely wore out a wire brush preparing a donated heavy metal garden chair for painting in GG red. A case of 'Little Wires Everywhere'?

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