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Extreme gardening

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  Posted by gardenerscafe (U14061650) on Wednesday, 8th July 2009

  I would like to challenge the experts to do some extreme gardening for a change. Too often do we see walled gardens (a doddle)or town and courtyard gardens being created etc. Mainly in the south!! Try doing it in some areas of Scotland where the wind and general conditions can be challenging to say the least. Exposure to the elements and what to plant that will survive would be interesting to watch. And I don't mean on the west coast in the Gulf stream either!!!
  

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  Posted by toonia (U4760062) on Wednesday, 8th July 2009

  That's more or less what Chris Beardshaw did In "The Flying Gardener".
  
  I remember one in particular where he dealt with a windy garden and he went to all parts of the country.
  
  I don't know if there are DVDs but the series used to be shown on UK Gardens.

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  Posted by crouchee (U13371975) on Wednesday, 8th July 2009

  I'd like to see more of such gardening. When I was little we used to holiday on the Point of Ardnamurchan, the most westerly point on the British mainland, in Argyll. The lighthouse keepers had a walled garden in a little hollow behind the lighthouse.
  
  It was so windy they propped planks between the rows of lettuces to stop them blowing away. In fact they grew nothing that exceeded a foot high,
  except kale and leeks.
  
  The garden is still there. Last time I saw it ten years ago it was just immaculate stone walls and grass. I can see myself restoring it, given an extra lifetime.

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  Posted by Trillium (U2170869) on Wednesday, 8th July 2009

  We had a fabulous holiday in the Orkneys a couple of years ago. Wonderful rich grass, no trees at all and a permanent gale blowing.
  
  The whole place was wonderfully green, but I really can't remember anything tallish which thrived except for Kniphofias which appeared to flourish, bolt upright in all garden corners. I think they were the tallest plants on the entire archipelago.

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  Posted by U14064003 (U14064003) on Thursday, 9th July 2009

  you might try a honey berry bush.

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  Posted by SilverGalanthus (U13903849) on Thursday, 9th July 2009

  Scotland is not the only place with extreme weather. I visited Derek Jarman's garden in Dungeness a couple of years ago.
  The shingle beach looked so bleak as far as you could see and dry as a bone; you could taste the sea salt in the wind blowing in your face. Yet his little garden at Prospect Cottage was a true haven. Jarman was definitely familiar with the notion of right plant / right place, but with proper care and planning, he still managed to plant a raised veg garden behind the cottage. The rest was what grew naturally all around such as sea kale and santolina, ornamented by his unique works of art, copied by gardeners ever since yet rarely if ever acknowledged.

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