Planted berry bushes in the new area, and started on the ground cover.

One redcurrant bush, one blackcurrant, and one gooseberry. I love all of these for eating and cooking, and it’s very rare to be able to buy them here. If you want any, you need to grow your own. I tried a gooseberry bush in a planter box, but as with everything else I tried growing in the boxes, it required eternal watering and mostly died the moment I stopped. This corner of the garden is in partial shade (not great for berry bushes) and there’s other things here competing for resources, but the soil here is good and shouldn’t dry out in the same way, so maybe this will work.

Underneath, it’s simple ground cover plants. Some Epimedium at the back, Waldsteinia towards the left, Geranium macrorrhizum in the middle. I’m not at all fond of the bare earth (or mulch-covered earth) look. These have all been successful in other parts of the garden, so the odds are good.

What hasn’t thrived at all is day lilies (Hemerocallis). I’ve put them in two places and they’ve been weedy little things, literally no larger than a small tuft of grass. There, at the top left, surrounded by the Waldsteinia. They’re supposed to be pretty hardy, but apparently not here. They’re going out as soon as I have time to buy a replacement.