My front garden is wild, we have been working on the house and haven't really got round to the garden. All we have growing that we want in there is a hydrangea that is in need of some sort of care. I think the blooms, although large and proliferous, are pale and washed out and we have a small wild dog rose the main thing we want to retain is the hydrangea. The rose can be replaced. I am thinking when my husband goes back to work ( been off 4 months with torn achilles) I will start to tackle this little wilderness. I will have to do it bit by bit as i have physical restrictions due to long term illness. My main concern is we have brambles and I have no clue how to eliminate them. My husband suggested weedkiller but am concerned it will kill my hydrangea he said he could try injecting it with weedkiller at the base of the stalks ( by the way they dont fruit.) We also have loads of aqualegia. I think it is called blue bells. The blue bells I'd like to try to save the seeds of but don't know if they are native or the other kind. Should I just do my best to clear putting a strong weedkiller down and pave? Maybe risk losing the hydrangea or is there an alternative? I really want to sort this wilderness out and the other worry is will everything grow back in the time it takes me to clear it? It is only small but we have lots of grasses also that shoot up in days.
Would it be possible to move your hydrangea? If you could clear a space for it away from the plants you want to kill off then you could go ahead and use the weedkiller without worrying.
we could always try its big though i dont know if it would move ok it must be about 4 ft wide and 3 ft high
I think that I would tackle one section at a time -- applying weed killer and pulling what weeds I could. Then lay down some landscaping fabric right away in that section. The landscaping fabric prevents light from getting to the soil -- preventing weeds. Around your hydrangea, I would try to hand pull weeds and put down landscaping fabric around it. It sounds like it's pretty large, and you might lose it if you try to move it. When you get the landscaping fabric, get the staples that go with it. Make sure to overlap the edges, too. Later, when you're ready to plant, take a utility knife and cut a hole in the fabric for the plants. Good luck! PS. When you get the weed killer, make sure you get the kind that kills the roots.
thank you ill have to go see how much the fabric costs but is a better idea than having to flag it, will regular weed killer kill brambles they seem determined little blighters we have pulled them up a few times
