Beautiful photos, stunning garden. Pretty much any image you upload online (eg on this website) is available to view immediately on platforms like Google images and can be saved for personal use. By uploading any image you are essentially making it public property. Odd and frustrating but true.
Any more pictures Lead Farmer? I love your layout, I want to explore.
Well, where do I start? I guess at the beginning. (I don't like how this forum positions photos in a post, so Ive had to space them out using lots of full stops!!)
I moved into this house 10yrs ago and the selling feature for me was the garden size. But it was a very bland and boring garden....
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So within days of moving in, and before starting any decorating inside the house, I set about changing the shape of the lawn and creating some more border space...
I wanted a cottage type garden so started planting around this theme. I dismantled the shed and moved it further down the garden so I could put a greenhouse in its place, and erected an archway and gate to separate the upper and lower halves of the rear garden
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The lower half with greenhouse and shed. I turned part of this area into a veg plot (if you look carefully you will even see copper piping on the raised bed timbers to keep slugs off, I tell visitors its an outdoor central heating system )..
Looking back up the garden from the lower half..
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I often let the lawn grow, and mow paths through it..
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My favourite part of the garden is the border by the archway..
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The views from the patio table..
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As you can see, i like to cram lots of plants together..
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As the garden progressed we had bi-folding doors installed to maximise the view out from the lounge, they are great when fully open on a hot summers day..
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The patio as it looked when we moved into the house...
Patio after I had made some changes...............
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It's lovely, LeadFarmer, you have made me keen to get out in my garden (when the weather improves!) and alter things! Did you make those obelisks yourself ? I could do with a couple to add height to my flower beds.
At the front of the house we dug up the small lawn and extended the driveway for parking, but had a small quadrant area created for planting, which I themed similar to the rear garden.. .............................................................................................................................
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It's lovely, LeadFarmer, you have made me keen to get out in my garden (when the weather improves!) and alter things! Did you make those obelisks yourself ? I could do with a couple to add height to my flower beds.
Yes, I made them myself. I copied a design in Geof Hamiltons Cottage Garden book and made them out of timber batons.
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I moved into this house 10yrs ago and the selling feature for me was the garden size. But it was a very bland and boring garden....
So within days of moving in, and before starting any decorating inside the house, I set about changing the shape of the lawn and creating some more border space...
I wanted a cottage type garden so started planting around this theme. I dismantled the shed and moved it further down the garden so I could put a greenhouse in its place, and erected an archway and gate to separate the upper and lower halves of the rear garden ............................................................................................................................
Looking back up the garden from the lower half..
Patio after I had made some changes...............
Did you make those obelisks yourself ? I could do with a couple to add height to my flower beds.