My front lawn because I just love a good lawn, and my pond due to the creatures that now call it home. I don't get much time in my garden at all and I know what I'd do in so many areas if I did have more time, but it's just not possible. I'm working on planting up, and when I've ran out of beds I'm digging more. The back garden is going to feel like a jungle, absolutely full of plants and hidden corners out of sight, whilst still fitting in the myriad of kids garden toys.
Looking back, and if I'm honest, @Janie B, the flower beds in my last garden - where I first started gardening - were probably subconsciously modeled on some of the more gaudy and garish council bedding displays; an absolute myriad of bedding plants with colours so intense that walking into the garden was like knocking back a triple espresso on the go. Kind of took your breath away
It would be a fabrication to suggest that there's not a lot of colour in my current front garden, however it's far more restrained than my last one and the back garden actually has some colour coordination in it. It does make a difference.
This is my knock-out plant, which was the one most commented on by visitors over the weekend. It's looking an absolute joy, especially as I'd though I would lose it over the last winter.
Just at the moment it's my new untreated shed which has had 2 coats of preservative and 3 coats of sadolin, all applied by me with a bit of help from my daughter. Last top coat went on at 7am this morning.
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I built a square box about 1 foot cubed and added some blocks of wood and drilled different size holes in them and installed them and made a Bee Hotel
For the last three years I have seen bees laying eggs to start off the next generation.
A cup of coffee sitting on an old plastic chair chatting with friends and the drone of approaching bees of different sizes is magical.