Lower Sloane Street SW1

Filed under: planting, maintenance, case studies on Dec 19, 2008

This is one of our maintenance contracts. It runs down half the length of Lower Sloane Street in London SW1 its about 180mtrs long but only about 12mtrs wide. Earthmoves took over the communal garden a couple of years ago with the widening and additional planting of the shrub border as it was very narrow and left little or no room for perennials.

This venture involved much physical grunt work as dozens of railway sleepers, tons of topsoil and hundreds of potted plants had to be brought in by hand down a steep set of stairs, along a narrow tunnel, and then up and around another set of twisting stairs. This project was then followed up by a pruning of the London Plane trees that overshadowed the entire length of the garden

We have just completed the annual Leaf collecting game and have just finished planting up our spring bulbs of mixed Daffs in the long mixed shrub border and in the centre bed and troughs we have planted yellow wallflowers and red Tulips you can see the result from pics that i took in spring 2008 showing the troughs and centre bed.

As well as the seasonal planting and general maintenance of the garden we are also carrying out a makeover on a large pile of rubble - the result of a World War ll bomb which has for a long time become overgrown with weeds. This has had the leading face made into a rockery and planted with Alpines, heathers, and small bulbs while the rest of the mound has been planted with shrubs, Ferns, bulbs, and a small kitchen herb garden.

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