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Hello,
I have very recently bought a house with a 'wrap round' garden. The garden has not been touched for fourteen years. Ive cleared 5 skips of rubbish, mainly bramble, dug out borders,made some seating areas etc but now need to get down to some planting. The house and garden is on the South Coast in Cornwall, about 400yds from the sea, soil is lightly acid, it is sheltered from most winds. The borders are variously situated so all some south/west/east and one small north facing plot.
The house has very ugly render on it, particularly the south west aspect and the east/north east so I want to grow something up to cover, has anyone out there got any good ideas for me?