Lost quite a few plants last winter( coldest for decades
) so have carefully avoided the gaps but other plants seem to be filling in the quite quickly .Although mainly a bamboo garden (250+ species) I'm trying to get a good combination of companion plants to set the bamboos off. It's a tad harder than it seems at first, probably take a good few decades to get it right
but at least it's good fun trying...I can't even blame someone else for poor choices as this is a new garden, 10 years ago is was just a flat field with no planting whatsoever.
is 3.5 acres, most of it planted up, the lawn is shrinking year on year and about half an acre at the mo. This place has just evolved with no set plan, would of been great to of started off with a good well set up plan, would of got some big machinery at the start and done some serious landscaping. The soil is heavy clay and with a high watertable any hole just becomes a natural pond, some big kit would of made some real nice large ponds connected by small canals . Back then it would of been pretty easy but now almost impossible without some serious damage, both to existing plants and the soil. 
