Planting the front
Today I decided it was time to try using the front garden to help get rid of the pots. So I started pulling up the very invasive campanula that lives there normally.
Front garden under window before planting
I dug over the soil with a trowel and tried to remove as many campanula roots as possible without pulling up too many wisteria or spiraea roots. I think I will keep an eye on the area and squirt any emerging campanula with glyphosate. It is a lovely plant, but I am fed up with it taking over and choking out everything else that tries to grow next to it.
And then I planted the acca sellowiana (aka feijoa) which was certainly ready to come out of its pot, and also one of the coronillas that Burncoose Nursery sent me in error. As usual, I put some bits of paving slab over the bare earth to discourage cats and weeds. I think I have probably tried to plant too many shrubs in the space, but I will have to see how they get on.
Front garden under window after planting
And that is now 112 pots, which is a reduction of 22.8%.