Everyone has some truly amazing spaces and the transformations are wonderful , its lovely to see lots of people with keen ideas for their outside spaces instead of sitting indoors entertaining the telly.
as many of you have said a garden is a work in progress its never finished, always some re designing to do or maintenance to do , this weekend having been to the Blooms at Bressingham 50 yr anniversary which is just 2 miles up the road from my home a few weeks back inspired me to create a grass walkway through a flower bed so ive designed a new bit in the garden to try and achieve this and added some new colour elsewhere. Update pictures below, hope you enjoy.
Fantastic thread and stunning gardens everyone.Just goes to show with a lot of hard work the rewards are great.Heres ours.posted before but such a great thread thought we'd show again.
Some really nice gardens in this thread! I have a place that had an amazing garden, think tiny lawns, natural springs winding paths small waterfalls all kept imaculately, the garden is about an acre. Unfortunatly by the time I bought the house it had stood empty for three years and been neglected for longer, and in the three years I've had it I've also neglected it. the flower side anyway, however I do have some veg garden pictures.
That's what it looked like in the estate agent photos, there's a lot more garden to the right of this shot, including the stream etc etc.
That is what it looked like when we bought it. We've since planted fruit trees in the lawn area as it slopes too much to be any use as a lawn, oh and it is now short(ish) grass The greenhouse has been reroofed and generaly spruced up, the grape (which still had it's name tag in it!) has had several vigerous prunes!
But the biggest transformation is just to the left of the second picture, this area here;
My vegetable garden! The brown things were nettles and thistles taller than me, and where the wheelbarrow is sitting was meant to be lawn!
Last year in July that area looked like...
This! You're not seeing the "flower" areas, as they really look worse than when I moved in! This area isn't actually my entire veg garden, I have another one almost the same size to the right of this picture.
Highlands, I see you live near Bressingham. Our English home is only about 10 minutes from Bressingham. Our other home is in France. Complicated history as we were both widowed and have a home each.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I've managed to miss this lovely little thread that Phil started. Really cracking transformations.
Too many to comment on individually, but it shows how a bit of hard graft and time can transform all sorts of spaces and make them into lovely places to be. Small spaces are harder to design well, as every plant has to earn it's keep, and a mistake stands out more, but BL has a much bigger problem (literally!) in creating something beautiful when it's such a large space. Lovely to see the bare bones of it though - I don't think I've seen you post that before, BL.
I moved into this house about four and a half years ago and it wasn't a garden - more of car park, with a fenced off area of slabs and gravel by the back door, and grass outside that, all round the side to the front. Completely open , which brought some problems initially.
It's slightly different now, and with the addition of an extension last year, I've had a bit of work to do round that over the last year.
Part of the fenced in area
The bit beyond that, taken from the side/front of the property
I put up a fence right round the boundary ,and removed all the (rotten) fenced enclosure. The back gate was moved and I kept a fairly typical layout with an area of grass. The view from that end (above) looks like this now
and the view the other way, from in front of that border above, looks like this. I've just made the pond slightly bigger this year
From the back steps with the boundary border behind the screen
and from the same spot looking down to the back gate, although this is an older pic
The narrow border along the back fence, from the gate in above pic
and the newest border along the extension is in it's infancy, but will hopefully mature in the next couple of years
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Everyone has some truly amazing spaces and the transformations are wonderful , its lovely to see lots of people with keen ideas for their outside spaces instead of sitting indoors entertaining the telly.
keep up the good work people
as many of you have said a garden is a work in progress its never finished, always some re designing to do or maintenance to do , this weekend having been to the Blooms at Bressingham 50 yr anniversary which is just 2 miles up the road from my home a few weeks back inspired me to create a grass walkway through a flower bed so ive designed a new bit in the garden to try and achieve this and added some new colour elsewhere. Update pictures below, hope you enjoy.
Fantastic thread and stunning gardens everyone.Just goes to show with a lot of hard work the rewards are great.Heres ours.posted before but such a great thread thought we'd show again.
wow daznrach love that patio as a centrepiece it really works well - lovely garden .
Jacqueline I love your transformation , I like the idea of placing pots on top of the wall
Some really nice gardens in this thread! I have a place that had an amazing garden, think tiny lawns, natural springs winding paths small waterfalls all kept imaculately, the garden is about an acre. Unfortunatly by the time I bought the house it had stood empty for three years and been neglected for longer, and in the three years I've had it I've also neglected it. the flower side anyway, however I do have some veg garden pictures.
That's what it looked like in the estate agent photos, there's a lot more garden to the right of this shot, including the stream etc etc.
That is what it looked like when we bought it. We've since planted fruit trees in the lawn area as it slopes too much to be any use as a lawn, oh and it is now short(ish) grass The greenhouse has been reroofed and generaly spruced up, the grape (which still had it's name tag in it!) has had several vigerous prunes!
But the biggest transformation is just to the left of the second picture, this area here;
My vegetable garden! The brown things were nettles and thistles taller than me, and where the wheelbarrow is sitting was meant to be lawn!
Last year in July that area looked like...
This! You're not seeing the "flower" areas, as they really look worse than when I moved in! This area isn't actually my entire veg garden, I have another one almost the same size to the right of this picture.
What gorgeous gardens have been made out of wildernesses. Really enjoying this thread.
Highlands, I see you live near Bressingham. Our English home is only about 10 minutes from Bressingham. Our other home is in France. Complicated history as we were both widowed and have a home each.
I've managed to miss this lovely little thread that Phil started. Really cracking transformations.
Too many to comment on individually, but it shows how a bit of hard graft and time can transform all sorts of spaces and make them into lovely places to be. Small spaces are harder to design well, as every plant has to earn it's keep, and a mistake stands out more, but BL has a much bigger problem (literally!) in creating something beautiful when it's such a large space. Lovely to see the bare bones of it though - I don't think I've seen you post that before, BL.
I moved into this house about four and a half years ago and it wasn't a garden - more of car park, with a fenced off area of slabs and gravel by the back door, and grass outside that, all round the side to the front. Completely open , which brought some problems initially.
It's slightly different now, and with the addition of an extension last year, I've had a bit of work to do round that over the last year.
Part of the fenced in area
The bit beyond that, taken from the side/front of the property
I put up a fence right round the boundary ,and removed all the (rotten) fenced enclosure. The back gate was moved and I kept a fairly typical layout with an area of grass. The view from that end (above) looks like this now
and the view the other way, from in front of that border above, looks like this. I've just made the pond slightly bigger this year
From the back steps with the boundary border behind the screen
and from the same spot looking down to the back gate, although this is an older pic
The narrow border along the back fence, from the gate in above pic
and the newest border along the extension is in it's infancy, but will hopefully mature in the next couple of years
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lovely to see more of your garden, Fairy, great use of foliage.