Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Looking good; how were they propagated? I've only read about splitting the crowns (which I've not attempted)

drainage layer of type one

Type 1 and drainage are most oftentimes incompatible.
Some aggregate suppiers do a (modified) Type 1 without the fines,
to give the required interlock to form a stable base, but allow permeability.

Good to know, I'll make sure that's what we get 👍

If you weren’t aware they need loads of water.

Thanks.

Hellebores or Hepaticas or both?

Just seedlings pulled from his garden :)

I have no affiliation with Day Aggregates,
but this is what you need to know.

These guys did our front garden in SE15 - they did both the hard and soft landscaping. Good crew.

http://www.london-landscape.com/

Happy to chat over PM if you want details and pics, etc.

Some pictures of: carrots and radishes in the raised beds ( nothing to see yet!) mint, rosemary and thyme, willow structure taking hold and stumps also sprouting!, random rhubarb..,

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Potatoes and pumpkins in the burial plot and some tulips

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Awesome :-)

I have a strip of what was formerly lawn, which is around 1.9m wide and 11m long.

The centrally located path which now creates this lawn strip has suffered a certain amount of criticism from my OH, due to its somewhat brutalist functional nature. This isn't completely unjustified.

So I am attempting to soften it and generally make the garden pleasant again, after some years of neglect.

The area in front of the boundary wall on the east side was pretty much completely overgrown with honeysuckle, brambles, root suckers from a self seeded plum tree, and ivy. I'm gradually clearing all that.

So I want to have a patch of lawn immediately after the bed in front of the block paved patio, but would like to break up the rest of it a bit.

Ideas?

Here's how it looks, incinerator will be moved once the clearance is finished.

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Looks great, get that random chimney pot on the rhubarb!

Build some micro-sized model aeroplanes and claim it's a landing strip.

Landing lights have already been suggested, Walthamstow's 3rd runway etc but some tiny little 'planes would definitely add something.

cheers - i've just been out and done that although i may have left it too late as it's a squeeze and the chimney pot is in 2 halves

Maybe some ferns/ exotic plants (i do like a tree fern) to make it a bit junglist and get some succulents growing in between the bricks so soften it up?

Would I be bonkers to try and achieve something like this kind of layout with square sandstone setts? @Colin_the_Bald have you ever done anything like this? Would be on to a concrete base and then an aggregate sub-base down the side of the house where the path runs over drains etc. My garden is about 12x4m and I'm aiming to break up the rectangular shape a bit

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tree fern is a nice idea. also considering a japanese maple, perhaps. maybe some dogwoods?

yeah, it's all a mish mash but that doesn't bother me.

also planning to considerably extend the random collection of stuff in troughs / pot / tubs.

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Perfectly doable, but you'll probably curse the day you started it. Your method is just fine, but remember to set your outer ring on mortar to retain the rest and allow for approx 2" of sand within the outer ring plus the depth of the setts. You'll need a Wacka plate and a block splitter/saw/angle grinder with diamond blade to cut down the setts that inevitably refuse to fit. No matter how hard you try, the calculations of number of rings of setts plus kiln dried sand between them won't exactly fit the outer ring. Here's one I did of various reclaimed bricks of different shapes and sizes we dug out of the garden whilst excavating a new formal patio. It was an absolute sod, but less complex than your design. Enjoy!

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Hellebores. We put one in our garden and it seemed to slump almost instantly. Then my mother in law said they are even thirstier than hydrangeas.

I think the location to the left of the runway is too sunny for a tree fern, except right at the back, in the shade of the Polish Hotel (shed). Garden is south facing. I could maybe move things around a bit and plant one there.

I'm planning on getting rid of the fig tree after this summer so it would add a bit of structure.

thanks. I've watered them again this evening; they are looking perky.