6/15/2023 0 Comments Garden story driftwoodBusiness cards: Geoff Stonebanks & Mark Glassman.Macmillan Cancer Support biro, pin badge and 2019 trail booklet.National Garden Scheme 2021 booklet, Driftwood on cover, scheme name badge and pin badge.Covid-19 test kit and Frida Kahlo face mask.Digital memory stick with images of the garden, media & award coverage, charity recognition, achievements, cake recipes, garden visitors and a pdf copy of Geoff’s book about the garden.These are the items that made the final selection: There is no date set to open it, so it’ll be discovered whenever anyone changes the garden in the future! Spurred on by the idea, I purchased a capsule and set about asking people on social media what I should include inside. Geoff’s time capsule is a snapshot of the garden for the futureĪ friend suggested I bury a time capsule beneath the new patio paving. I think a ‘How I did it’ book about your garden could be inspirational and valuable to so many people who don’t have a large garden but want to do something interesting with a relatively small space”. The completed space already looks amazing but will not show its true potential until next Spring, when it will be dressed with my large collection of succulents.Ī facebook visitor and follower, Sacha Hubbard, posted on social media: “ Anyone who hasn’t seen Driftwood but has read your posts, might think you’re Mr Manyacres! What you do with an average size modern garden plot is simply astonishing. It looks amazing, can’t wait to see it in its full glory spring time“. Landscaper Dan said: “ Thanks Geoff, hope you enjoy the new area as much as we did building it. More importantly, they then had to carry the 50 railway sleepers up the drive too. I felt so sorry for his team as they then had to wheelbarrow all the debris down the steep drive to the waiting skips. Dan navigated a mini digger through the left side of the house and excavated 4 skips of chalk and debris, creating the new sunken garden area. So, for 11 days in October, local landscaper, Dan Smith and his company, Ace Of Spades, worked their magic using my own design ideas to create an amazing space, bordered by upturned old railway sleepers. The small patio by the green folly door was extended to meet the rear of the dug-out area which is secured, unusually, with 50 old railway sleepers on end.Īt the onset of the work, a follower on Twitter said: “ the destructive bit is terrifying – but then comes the creative bit”. While doing this, we created rustic brick and old railway sleeper edging to replace the original raised wooden beds alongside the rear of the house and around the central steps, which had started to rot. Geoff’s new drought tolerant area is easy to care for and has a striking, mediterranean lookīack in March 2021, I conceived the idea to create a sunken patio garden at the rear of the house by digging out the area on the left side of the garden and creating a Mediterranean area with drought tolerant plants, a collection of succulents and shrubs.
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