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📐Garden Designer in Faversham, Kent
🌿Designing across Kent, SE England and further afield.
🌱Gardening for wellbeing, sustainability & joy
🍃Transforming our walled family garden
📺GW ep.26

04/09/2026

The garden is certainly showing signs of autumn. The shoots of the Hakonechloa marcra are beginning to put on a reddish tinge and the lavender is putting on some silvery new growth after it’s cut back. Though there are signs of colour to come, new flowers and second showings; I’m very excited to see late signs of growth from ten Dahlia tubers, and the Echinacea, roses and Knautia macedonica are showing new shoots and buds. The Gaura, Verbena and Erigeron continue to flower strongly.

01/09/2026

Lots of different shades of green in the garden at the moment . There will be colour coming back in the coming weeks as the Dahlias come out and the Echinacea and Knautia macedonica flower again. The verbena and gaura keep on giving, and the rainbow chard is adding a nice pop of colour at the back of the garden.

Rufus has been enjoying it too, with the lavender having seeing cut back he’s taking advantage of being able to get into the beds!

18/08/2026

Hot and hazy in the garden.

It’s more overcast today, hopefully a signal of things to come - the weather forecast is saying that the next 3 days should bring rain, hooray!!!

The garden is coping, but it could certainly use a drink.

12/08/2026

The garden is still full of wildlife - with the echinops, echinacea and verbena, in particular, pulling them in at this time of year. Others such as the lavender, crocosmia, roses, leucanthemum, gladioli, gaura, and Knautia macedonica are still drawing a crowd too.

The ornamental grasses, Hakonechloa macra and Panicum vigartum ‘Northwind’, are bringing much needed lush greenery to the garden at a time when much else is muted.

The figs, well they’ve been adoring this weather, never have we had such a bumper crop!

05/08/2026

A dry garden. Both literally at the moment but also by design. I’m back, after a week away in the Lake District, to a dry but still, thankfully, relatively vibrant summer garden. I’m happy, and a little relieved, with how it’s held up! We had three minutes of rain here today, the first in weeks, and even with such a scanty amount of water the garden is thankfully still thriving.

Yes, the colours are now more muted, and yes I have a fair bit of deadheading and pruning to do, but it’s heartening to see that our gardens can still bring us colour in the face of dry conditions and changing and warming climates.

The garden is intentionally climate resilient, designed as a dry garden to (hopefully) thrive without irrigation - this isn’t an entirely altruistic endeavour as it also saves us money on water, time spent on watering, and means we can feel comfortable leaving the garden to its own devices. We also seem to have constant hosepipe bans in Kent, which would make watering very difficult anyway! I’m still testing in parts, but that’s part of the fun.

I’ll have to do a post in the near future on the drought tolerant plants I’ve chosen in my garden!

Hope everyone’s gardens are holding up!

04/08/2026

A lovely week unwinding in the Lake District. Very different scenery to what Kent has to offer! Stunning views and vistas. The weather was quite different too, as it rained most days - which just adds to the atmosphere of the Lakes.

Arlen did so well with all the walking. The holiday was a truly lovely celebration of his Ouma, who we remembered dearly and brought us altogether ❤️

20/07/2026

Morning light on the garden. The vibrant purples of the echinacea and gladioli really pop against the now verdant greens of Hakonechloa and Panicum grasses (which stand out all the more now the lavender and santolina have more muted hues).

It’s time for me to prune the lavender, earlier than I’ve had to before. I’ll to take it back pretty hard, but it’ll have plenty of time to bounce back before winter comes around. Rufus is going to the groomer late this week for a prune too.

15/07/2026

There’s still colour in the garden despite a number of plants having gone over, that’s the wonderful thing about succession planting. Whilst the lavender has now lost its lustre, the echinacea now pop alongside the echinops, with gladioli shooting up too. Verbena, Oenothera (Gaura), Erigeron, and the Knautia macedonica continue to add colour and will do through the summer months.

The garden is designed as a dry garden, which means I don’t water it (aside from a handful of pots). What’s impressive is how well the roses have done in this environment, now on their third or so flush of flowers.

14/07/2026

A lovely weekend spent down the allotment as a family, complete with wheelbarrow rides which Arlen found hilarious good fun (and so did I)!

Everything has just taken off in the last few weeks! We’ve even got a patipan growing, hopefully we’ll get a few more than one! The squash and pumpkins are going strong up the arch, the cucumbers are climbing and growing well and the courgettes are spreading out merrily. The sweetcorn is getting there, surrounded by tomatoes and nasturtiums that have self-seeded from last year, and we have potatoes for days across three different beds!

The brassicas are doing well in the netted cage I built earlier this year, and the newly built lean-to has done its job of enabling us to harvest rain water (as there’s no running water at the allotments). The apple tree is fruiting following a hard prune (which means we can now reach most of the branches) and the sunflowers are ginormous!

I’m really happy with how the wildflower area has taken off - bringing loads of pollinators in, and looking beautiful to boot. Our little pond, which is surrounded by these wildflowers, has toads (hooray!) - though we could probably do with a few more to keep the slugs under control!

The sown spinach hasn’t been very successful, so may have to reconsider that bed.

We’ve had the allotment 3 years now and for the first time feel like we have a bit of a handle of it. However, it just needs everything to bolt again and we’ll be feeling very different I’m sure 🤣

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Faversham

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http://www.edmundjacksongardendesign.com/

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