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The Hospital Bed 2008 and 2009
The Hospital Bed Project:In January 2006, the Tetbury in Bloom Team started work on the Hospital bed. Situated on quite a steep slope under a tree, we decided to move its location further down the slope and change the shape from a semi circle to a long lozenge shape.
Before the makeover, this bed was planted with carpet style bedding of Busy Lizzies
Once the bed was ready to plant the theme ‘Soft & Fluffy’ was chosen using a calming colour scheme of pink, mauve & white. Sustainable plants included French lavenders, aquilegias, cistus, heucheras and silver leafed salix enhanced with pink and white cosmos with its soft feathery foliage, pink and white bellis and pink begonias provided all summer colour.
The Hospital bed, in its first Summer, 2006
In 2007 the ‘soft & fluffy’ theme was not so apparent but more perennials including white penstemon, pink and mauve linaria together with pink marguerites, begonias and antirrhinums were planted.
Summer 2007
In 2008 the bed changed its identity further to a more spiky and structured look with the introduction of the kniphofia “Tetbury Torch” which was developed at our local Close Nursery.
Summer 2008
Despite the changes we made, the bed still failed to achieve that ‘WOW’ factor that so many of the other beds in the town have developed. We therefore enlarged the back of the bed to make it a softened triangular shape and introduced spiky yellow phormium and yellow choisya which have been so successful in the Braybrooke Close bed.
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