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What in your garden are you most proud of?

NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
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What has worked really well, looks fabulous, performed better than your expectations? I am still on a steep learning curve so can’t claim any outright successes so far, but would love to hear what works for you.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's an interesting question. I would love to see loads of photos of your high garden Nollie. What for you is the answer to your question? You seem to have put in so much time to make your lovely garden grow!

    The answer for my patch, is probably - my compost bins, which are a delight and work much better than I ever thought they would, for a tiny patch. Also I have started a project where we plant under the street trees - nothing major, but it has slowly worked well over the years and now we have a street of ox eye daisies, erigeron, campion and things. We are slowly developing a network on the street for seed and cutting swaps. The idea (for me) to encourage people to have the courage to use their front gardens again and not pave them over. Most have disappeared under artificial grass or concrete.  Even to get kids growing some daffs in pots at the front is a bit of a triumph.
  • Bagpuss57Bagpuss57 Posts: 256
    My great success has been getting a cold frame and mini wooden greenhouse. I have sowed hundreds of seeds and luckily more germinated and survived with the extra protection. I have lots of sweet William which also is great as a cut flower. Looking fabulous at the moment too. My other success is my penstemon cuttings. This time every single one took root and now I have at least ten strong plants as back up for next year or to give to family members. What have you tried so far Nollie? I am sure your weather beats mine if you're in Spain!! Good luck with all your gardening! I'm sure you'll have plenty of successes soon. 
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Every year when I plant plants in the garden which I have grown from seeds..........wonderful 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The combinations I like the best are serendipitous so I can't really feel proud
    Non - gardeners  think I'm a good gardener but I bury my mistakes.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I'm proud that so many birds and insects seem to feel themselves welcome here, and, if it weren't for the neighbours' cats, there's nothing here to harm them.  
  • ChrisWMChrisWM Posts: 214
    Great thread. I’m a relative newcomer to gardening, so am particularly pleased that the four rose shrubs I put in have thrived, and are flowering so well.  I know that’s what one would expect, but I’m relieved it’s the case, as I know they need particular care. 
    If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    I know it's nothing exceptional,but I feel stupidly proud of my Crystal Palace Lobelia which I grew from seed,now in magnificent enormous clumps,as a backdrop to red Geraniums,in large pots.
    They were so tiny,and my eyesight isn't great,so pricking them out was a feat in its self!
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
  • Big Bang InflationBig Bang Inflation Posts: 50
    edited June 2018
    When I moved into this house both the front and back gardens were terribly overgrown, especially the front garden that was chest high with brambles, bind weed and other belligerents.

    There were some established but very sorry looking shrubs in both the front and the back garden. The worst ones of the lot were 4 Hybrid-T roses and an incredibility small, spindly and chlorotic Camellia.

    All 5 of these plants are now in large pots and all have flowered or are currently flowering their heads off.

    The other establish plants - the Lonicera, Deautzia, Jasmines, Hypericum, the weeping cherry and pussy willow - are looking much healthier and even the leggy Rhododendron is looking better.

    That's, by far, what I'm most proud of in this garden; what I was actually able to save.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    I am proud of all my front garden.  I used to have this 


    Now after 5 years hard work I have this




    West Yorkshire
  • Big Bang InflationBig Bang Inflation Posts: 50
    That's a magnificent transformation Pauline 7. Fantastic job.

    You inspired your neighbour to work on their garden as well ?
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