Mar 03 2009
Soil Type for Your Garden
Soil type, weather conditions, cultivation techniques and geographical location will all play their part. A willow (Salix) growing in a dry soil will possibly grow less well. and fail to achieve the height and spread that it would have done on its preferred, moist soil.
When climbers or wall shrubs are being sited it is important to remember that the plants will have a certain amount of forward spread, and if such a plant is in a narrow border next to a path, it can impede easy passage when the plant is fully developed. A Garrya elliptica, for example, can spread forward by as much as 2m (6ft) in as little as two or three years, and reducing such a plant by pruning will substantially (kininish its overall effect. Blending the shapes and sizes of all the plants in a garden is crucial to the overall design and the effect that can he achieved. However, planting architectural conifers so that they grow together should be avoided.
Thinking ahead about their eventual size can avoid future damage and disappointment. An overplanted group of conifers is one of the saddest sights in gardening. Planting each one in the first place so that it has room to develop and using some other low-growing or relatively short-lived plant such as heathers between each overcomes the sparse, underplanted effect that results by correctly spacing the important plants at the outset.
The alkalinity and acidity of the soil may enhance or depress growth rates if the individual plants are like rhododendrons and azaleas, which require a specific soil – in their case, an acid soil. If they are planted on an alkaline soil, they will often grow and struggle for a number of years, but in the end they will never reach their expected potential and may even die.
Even when a planting scheme is thoroughly researched, the results may be disappointing, and this is usually because of time. As we have already noted, plants can take many years to reach a useful shape and size and to produce their full display potential.
As summer passes, flowers bethi signs of interesting and attract seeds. Autumn is more unpredi sunshine highlights unexpecte, increasingly bare stems and shrubs and trees reveal their an are still a few flowers. mostly blit winter approaches.
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