@Tin pot. Did you take any photos of the garden you’d planned, should have been nice through the summer?
This year has zoomed by and I haven’t realised half of my plans, but I’m not in any hurry. What I have learned is that I haven’t the time so I’m going to need to get someone in for some of it.
Ill check through my pics to see what I can share. 🙂
This year has zoomed by and I haven’t realised half of my plans, but I’m not in any hurry. What I have learned is that I haven’t the time so I’m going to need to get someone in for some of it.
Ill check through my pics to see what I can share. 🙂
I think a lot of us feel like that, the years just roll by and the older you get, the quicker they roll! I’d love someone to help, it’s very expensive here to get a gardener.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Im afraid I haven’t got much, or much done, but some ideas have started to come in to play.
This is more recently.
I had had rosemary and other herbs in the wall once they got big enough, and with the begonias (red) and dahlias (white) it looked fabulous to me. Unfortunately snails and slugs savaged the dahlias straight away, so I need something a bit tougher next season to bring the white. In the pic above I’ve moved the now huge rosemary in with lavender on the far path along the grapevines.
I was too optimistic with lavender plug plants still being tiny, and of the 40 I got I’ve got about twenty surviving. I should have just paid more and bought more mature plants...penny pinching eh?
Where I planned the raised beds, I grew the grass long to see how the new structure of the garden would look. I liked it so much I kept it, and the family have grown into it too. With these urns I get a rural Italian feel:
The grapevines have have come along splendidly, and cropped for the first time since I got the bare roots in iirc Nov 2017. One so much that the arch collapsed, so in the first photo you can see I’m replacing the metal arches with sturdier wood.
I focussed my attentions on on the front garden (The Garden Of Desolation) expecting it to be “done” in spring, but in fact it sapped almost all my attention and returned me very little.
Your post has spurred me on though, and I’m determined to make more headway on these plans before winter sets in, so thanks 😀
Lovely! It does take time though, the big urn is really nice, some big red pelargoniums in there would look nice, next year. My daughter always has those for her Mediterranean garden, (in Cornwall) 🙂 her big pots are glazed blue. she also got a Bottle Brush shrub, that goes well. Nice to have some grapes. Keep working at it , just slowly don’t let it become a chore or you’ll get to hate it, which is what’s happening to me this year.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I like that a lot... I agree, the long grass works well. You could add a bit of topiary (or Irish yew, or Juniper 'Skyrocket')... And a gnarled olive... oops getting carried away again!
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I like that a lot... I agree, the long grass works well. You could add a bit of topiary (or Irish yew, or Juniper 'Skyrocket')... And a gnarled olive... oops getting carried away again!
🙂
In fact that’s exactly what I’m doing this weekend. I have some cupressus and buxus, and I’m looking for yew. Originally I was going to go for the classic lines of symmetry, I can’t remember the Italian design principle, but instead I think a less organised collection will look good with some water bowls.
Ive been working on my Italian design, still a world in progress but I’m putting together a collection of evergreens and water bowls in a symmetrical arrangement Italian designs used for the theme of water.
It doesn’t look great yet I know, but it’s starting to come together.
Opposing it will be a similar square on the theme of fire.
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Ill check through my pics to see what I can share. 🙂
Im afraid I haven’t got much, or much done, but some ideas have started to come in to play.
This is more recently.
I had had rosemary and other herbs in the wall once they got big enough, and with the begonias (red) and dahlias (white) it looked fabulous to me. Unfortunately snails and slugs savaged the dahlias straight away, so I need something a bit tougher next season to bring the white. In the pic above I’ve moved the now huge rosemary in with lavender on the far path along the grapevines.
I was too optimistic with lavender plug plants still being tiny, and of the 40 I got I’ve got about twenty surviving. I should have just paid more and bought more mature plants...penny pinching eh?
Where I planned the raised beds, I grew the grass long to see how the new structure of the garden would look. I liked it so much I kept it, and the family have grown into it too. With these urns I get a rural Italian feel:
The grapevines have have come along splendidly, and cropped for the first time since I got the bare roots in iirc Nov 2017. One so much that the arch collapsed, so in the first photo you can see I’m replacing the metal arches with sturdier wood.
I focussed my attentions on on the front garden (The Garden Of Desolation) expecting it to be “done” in spring, but in fact it sapped almost all my attention and returned me very little.
Your post has spurred me on though, and I’m determined to make more headway on these plans before winter sets in, so thanks 😀
My daughter always has those for her Mediterranean garden, (in Cornwall) 🙂 her big pots are glazed blue.
she also got a Bottle Brush shrub, that goes well.
Nice to have some grapes.
Keep working at it , just slowly don’t let it become a chore or you’ll get to hate it, which is what’s happening to me this year.
🙂
In fact that’s exactly what I’m doing this weekend. I have some cupressus and buxus, and I’m looking for yew. Originally I was going to go for the classic lines of symmetry, I can’t remember the Italian design principle, but instead I think a less organised collection will look good with some water bowls.
Thanks for your comments @Lyn @wildbill
Ive been working on my Italian design, still a world in progress but I’m putting together a collection of evergreens and water bowls in a symmetrical arrangement Italian designs used for the theme of water.
It doesn’t look great yet I know, but it’s starting to come together.