Buxus sempervirens

Following the purchase of 24 box plants yesterday and noticed at reference 1, there was a further executive decision that they would not be planted out directly in the garden, but rather moved to pots and brought on there, before being planted out in the garden in the spring.

The clumps of four plants turned out to be thoroughly pot bound in their two inch long by one and half inches wide by two inches high slot in the plastic tray, and required some fiddling and some water to separate them out.

But all now planted out in a 50-50 mixture of potting compost and sieved hoggin (the stuff you make low grade concrete out of), neat compost seeming a bit strong to me. Fenced in behind a short oak post, surprisingly heavy for its size, and well over fifty years old, possibly nearer a hundred years old, being salvage from my childhood garden shed.

I look forward to happy winter evenings plotting where to put them. One candidate is the back of the new daffodil bed where they can grow up to replace the slowly rotting fence. Cleft chestnut, a form of fencing I am very partial to, but it doesn't last for ever.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/autumn-visit.html.