The Malus & Meadow "Pretty and Tough" Pollinator Garden Guide: Part 1

The very pretty but very tough garden between mum's cottage, the Productive and Rose Gardens, creating the second line of defence, with the Long Border, in helping to attract beneficial insects.

The area between mum’s cottage, the Productive Garden and Rose Garden and the Malus grove that will be our latest garden area, that will be very pretty but very tough, and will help to attract more pollinators to this part of the property.

To my dear Greenthumbs and those who dream of being!

Here is our latest instalment which we refer to in the February Edition of our garden video diary series, the (Moor)Field Guide in Motion, which is out tomorrow morning, of what will be a very pretty but also, very tough part of the garden that has a few jobs to fulfill but namely, that of a pollinating insect attracting boundary for the two gardens that need their help the most, the Productive Garden and the Rose Garden. This new garden will assist the Long Border on the other side of these garden rooms, to manage pest numbers and greatly add to the overall diversity we are slowly building in here at Moorfield.

This year we have struggled with extremely dry, hot and windy conditions and while we had always planned to make this garden area tough, we are even more determined after this past summer to make sure that what is planted here can survive on very little water and/or intervention from us. This is to ensure that it is also easy to maintain as we already have so much on our plates in the building of the whole of the garden, and in life in general. It is an exciting garden for us to be making as it knits together multiple separate spaces and forms one large garden space which will be so good to finally see, and has been well informed from the three years we have spent here, watching the climate shift and change but also, in the building and maintaining of the Dry (Pool) Garden area, which we are also continuing to grow in the coming year.

This guide will outline…… the overall plan of this garden area including illustrations, plant lists and why we have chosen what we have, hardscaping details, a breakdown of how it will be built, when and with what and how it will interact with the garden rooms it is designed to assist but also, how it will have to blend with both productive and ornamental gardens of very different looks and feels and attempt to offer an opportunity to blur the lines between them.

As always, thank you for being here, we hope this new garden gives you something to think about, is inspiring and informative.

Pip xo

The map of the southern end of the property where the Malus and Meadow Garden is between mum’s cottage, the veg patch and the rose garden.