A week ago today our contractors started work on the steps up what had been the camomile bank.  Now finished and partly planted up we are totally delighted.  It has been very hard work when they left . The "tiding" up was up to us.  The main problem with this bank, which is south facing but slopes towards the cottage, is that half of it the soil is quite light and the other half is almost total clay.  Very, very solid clay.  I have just spent the afternoon digging it up and working barrow after barrow of compost into it in and attempt to lighten the soil.  I know that I will have to carry on with this for many seasons to come if I am to transform the soil and the right hand side of the bank and of course this now leaves me with the question.  What to plant.