We’ve been working on clearing out an overgrown corner of the Smallest Smallholding so we can have a Mediterranean-style eating area with loads of wildlife/bee-friendly, drought-tolerant plants. It gets sun pretty much all day and the soil is incredibly poor… but that’s OK for some plants! A massively, huge, immense job but I’m determined to get it done this year. I’m a bit fed up already with doing trips to the tidy tip – we should have gone a green skip!

Here’s what I’m thinking of planting in this area:

• A selection of lavenders
• There’s already an old rosemary – it’s very old and woody so it might have to come out and be replaced
• A selection of herbs that flower – chives, hyssop etc.
• Rudbeckia
• Some sort of scabious
• Some grasses
• Perhaps a few pots with climbing beans and tomatoes

We may have a small paved area to put seating on, and gravel the rest, or perhaps keep some mulched borders – we’re not sure yet!

Got any other ideas or tips? Let me know 🙂