Constantly flooded border, what is my best option?

owenlesley2

Front garden border flooded almost all year round - house sits at the bottom of a steep road, so probably below natural water level. Solution needs to be low maintenance as very hard to dig/weed. Is it better to 1) build it up with grit/soil/sand and plant irises, fritillaries etc. Or 2) build a makeshift wooden deck/cover to hide the area, with maybe irises etc popping through holes in the wood? I appreciate it may sink but it won’t be sat on/walked on!

pansyface

A pond?

owenlesley2

Good idea and if it was my garden I might do that. But it is my brother’s council house front garden so needs to be fairly traditional

pansyface

A bog garden.  Unless someone steps on it they’ll never know....🤫

owenlesley2

I shall do a bit of research into creating - thank you!

Dovefromabove

pansyface said:

A bog garden

There’s some gorgeous plants to be grown in a bog garden ... astilbe, mimulus,  candelabra primulas, zantedeschia ... 

owenlesley2

it was actually my childhood garden (I’m now 47!) and I remember they had candelabra primulas which I thought were amazing as a child. I will look up the others, thank you. I now need to work out how to cheaply mulch/landscape the rest of the garden - just found out how expensive gravel is! My brother is a carer and has zero time (or inclination) to do the garden which is just a mass of weeds we somehow need to control! Thanks again

Dovefromabove

Candelabras are just gorgeous aren’t they @owenlesley2 😊. We live near to here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairhaven_Woodland_and_Water_Garden

over 50,000 of them 

https://www.fairhavengarden.co.uk/