Designing for the soil you've actually got, not the one in the catalogue. When the Sandringham show garden came home to the Gamesley community garden this summer, I had a problem. A lot of its plants, like Perovskia, Echinacea and Agapanthus, want full sun and sharp drainage. Gamesley has heavy clay and poor drainage. If you garden in Glossop, you'll know exactly what that means. You put a spade in, and it either won't go in or won't come out. In winter the soil is cold porri
