Garden Pictures Chat Corner

How tall do you think? We destroyed tall pampas grass and miscanthus in the garden last year because they became unsightly.
So beach oats or rye grass are out of the question. They get too tall for the well.

The well is supposed to stay.

I meant something big, pampas grass or similar. But then I wouldn't leave the jug there.
If the jug is to stay, I would plant something very flat.

PS: What exactly would be unsightly about the pampas grass?

I wouldn’t leave the jug there, though.

The jug is the well. It has a large container with a pump underneath. That’s why we’re reluctant to move it. We also like it there very much.

PS: What would be unattractive about the pampas grass?

Well, we often forgot to tie it up. As a result, many plumes flew everywhere. In the end, it became bare in the middle. The other grasses also often left dried stalks. The problem for us is that the main terrace is about 30 cm lower. So everything released by the wind gathered there.

I would probably just plant a nicely blooming ground cover with individual taller plants in between. Maybe lilies or ornamental thistles or a "spartan summer meadow" with only a few tall-growing plants.

Does anyone of you have an idea for the slate area?

I find yellow-flowering sedum very beautiful for this area. It does not take the attention away from the jug/fountain, but nicely frames it.

Your garden looks beautiful! Wow! I also really like the view of the house from the outside.

I don't have many photos of Garden 2.0 yet. But I found this funny because the same cat is still sitting in the second front yard. The rest of the property still gives me headaches. In front of the house, we're relatively far along or have a plan. But on the side, down the slope, I unfortunately have excavated soil, nothing grows properly there. In the fall, I might put around 1-2 rows of planting stones around it and add some topsoil, just about 20cm or so, so that plants can grow there and not just the thistles. In Lower Saxony I was spoiled; our excavated soil was the best soil. Unfortunately, that’s not the case here. And then there is the entire width of the property behind the house, where we have a fairly steep slope. We had considered gradually covering it with ground cover plants and shrubs. But that's not a 100% solution—I don’t look down there anyway. The neighbor would probably be the only one happy about that. The optimal solution would actually be to level and fill it along the entire length so that we have as much soil as possible at one height, or at least only slightly sloping, not steep. But I don’t even want to think about how much it would cost to have something like that done. It’s 30 meters in length and probably 2-3 meters high we would need to fill. Although I’m only estimating that. A neighbor offered to measure it sometime soon.