it's NOT a pond!

I've spent a couple of days this week digging the first new bed in the garden for a year or so, replacing some skimpy shaded grass with a new bog bed. This basically involved digging out about half a ton of soil, putting a liner and edging in and then putting all the soil back. Now all I have to do is wait for some rain to fill it up. I hope to plant lots of damp loving plants - just the thing now we've got a drought order. Plants are like food cravings - I just must have some astilbes! give me a bog primrose quick and a dozen meadowsweet...I blame Beth Chatto, it was her mouth watering descriptions of plants in her catalogue years ago that set me off.