Three Springs

A nine-metre border in a small back garden, planted and replanted over three years.

2026

  1. Year three in September: what finally works and the three I am giving up on
  2. Dividing and moving: twenty-two clumps shifted in one long weekend

2025

  1. The August gap: nothing between the geraniums and the asters
  2. Cutting back in March, and what the hollow stems were holding

2024

  1. Planting the first thirty-one plants into a border I had just drawn
  2. Clearing the fence border: couch grass, a buried path and a wheelbarrow of rubble