That's my excuse anyway. The steep embankment below the Wendy House / Man Cave / Terminal 3 and its amazing sun terrace is only safely accessible by abseiling down and hanging on to heavy duty chains securely anchored into the ground. Gardening it is a problem.
The plan is to encourage the carefully chosen shrubs to spread and cover it. Meantime we would have unsightly bare areas of rocky soil and clay. One answer nowadays is to let nature decide what should grow there. This has been remarkably successful this year as what might have been deemed to be weeds have flourished and allowed to flower - attracting bees and butterflies galore. Roses too have appreciated company.
Not at all bad actually. Because of the slope, you cannot get very close to the planting so what matters is the overall effect. You can see the roll-up sun shade over the terrace in the top picture and retracted in the lower one. An exceedingly good buy which shades from the sun and protects from any rain, much extending the usefulness of the terrace.
The fence that runs along the middle of the banking is made of 3 x 8foot long scaffolding tower panels, formerly parts of Gordon the Gondola, camouflaged by trellis. For the history of Gordon the Gondola do a search for Gordon using the line below the Blog's title picture.
The slope has gone from wilderness / problem area to most attractive and useful part of the gardens, full of interest and varying textures.
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