Lou is the owner of Cragend Farm with her husband Shaun, and deals with everything from Holiday Accommodation inquiries to egg collection from the chickens; she is the social media and web design finger-tapper.
Planting time
We have planted the 'hydrangea petiolaris' today, on a north facing wall at the rear of the barns that will climb and give some beautiful flowers in due course.
This area will eventually be a west terrace for evening sunshine up until approximately 9pm during the height of summer, and this north wall just falls short of any full sunshine so is ideal for this climbing shrub.
It is a large self-clinging, deciduous climber with broadly oval leaves turning yellow in autumn. Flower-heads can be up to 20cm in width, with small fertile flowers surrounded by showy white sterile one. Originating from Japan this plant can cope with our harsher winters and is very hardy. Hopefully it will grow to cover this north wall and give the bees something new to come and visit.
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Cragend Farm has a interesting and diverse history, from technical innovations to historic buildings. Tied in closely to the neighbouring Cragside Estate home of Victorian inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong.