Community Garden 3 The Co-op Bed

 Continuing the November photographic record of the community gardens, I have come to the third bed, this is a tricky one, much improved since the days before we made an effort to garden there when it was a repository for cigarette ends and general rubbish. If you visit the old Pipers Area website and have a look under Spring Clean + you will see what the bed looked like before we started, and a photo of Adrian Downing digging the bed over.

The bed is situated behind a bus shelter making it hard to access to work on it. There's also a very vigorous Wisteria which we are in the process of trying to remove because we need scaffolding to tie it in place. So here are the photos, it looks OK ish from the pathway coming from the Co-op, but looking at the photos again, I can see we need to remove all trace of the Wisteria.

Here we can see Salvia 'Royal Bumble' and one of the vigorous Persicarias still in flower.

You can see that from the other end, it looks a bit sparse, there was a very vigorous perennial sunflower in there which had to be removed, hopefully we'll have some more perennials filling the space better next year. The remains of the Wisteria don't look good.

This plant is a Nemesia, doing very well despite the dry summer, so more Nemesia will go in there. It will probably survive the winter, and look good next spring.