Your garden is quite lovely, and I really like your ideas for the end of the garden. The suggestion for bare root hedging would be a less expensive option. I chose copper beech for ours. Looking forward to following your thread. Have the neighbours moved in yet?
Now if only i could get the dog to stop peeing on the lawn!!
I've done a small fenced off 2mx3m area for our dog, whenever I let her out I tell her to do her wee in the fenced bit, encourage this by 1st thing on a morning when the dog needs the loo put them into the fenced area and reward them when they do their business. Part of our dogs routine now, soon as she is aloud out in the back garden she'll do her wee in the fenced area then is free to play in the garden as much as likes. Works well.
Sorry for the pics of the garden and veg beds, but we moved in in January and made all the raised beds so we're quite chuffed with how our gardens coming on too and can't help but share!
Your garden is quite lovely, and I really like your ideas for the end of the garden. The suggestion for bare root hedging would be a less expensive option. I chose copper beech for ours. Looking forward to following your thread. Have the neighbours moved in yet?
Hi,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. The neighbours have moved in now, both sides very friendly people
There was a few hours break from rain today, so I got out there and got some digging done.! I wasn't expecting to get the majority of the turf removed in a couple of hours work. Now I just need to get my line straight and then put the line for the hedge in.
I will probably dig down a foot or 2 behind the hedges for the gravel/rock garden area...thinking about a couple of steps going down to the area from the gap in the hedges. Also if I can drop a foot or 2 especially in the area of the bench, it will give even more privacy..
Looked up some hedges today, I don't want to go too small as It will just mean waiting longer for a decent hedge. I will probably go with one of these options as an example:
The width of my garden is 8m. The yews planted 18inches apart means i would need about 18 of them. So i'm looking at around £250 if i went with the 2-3ft rootball at £14.39 each. (give or take a couple of plants)
These are some of the rocks i have, plus the ones already along the back fence. (the flat ones, i may use to build a small wall, i'm not sure yet.
I will decide at a later date what kind of gravel i'll use..I'll be letting the area i've dug out settle over winter, I can get rid of weeds as they come out. Then I can put the gravel down early spring hopfully..well, that's the plan at the moment.!
Now if only i could get the dog to stop peeing on the lawn!!
I've done a small fenced off 2mx3m area for our dog, whenever I let her out I tell her to do her wee in the fenced bit, encourage this by 1st thing on a morning when the dog needs the loo put them into the fenced area and reward them when they do their business. Part of our dogs routine now, soon as she is aloud out in the back garden she'll do her wee in the fenced area then is free to play in the garden as much as likes. Works well.
That's a good idea. Gives me something to consider...
Your garden is looking good, the raised beds look great too
Just a little update I've been at the digging again and working on improving the soil. I've been adding different organic composts and leaf mulch. Please ignore the state of the lawn....! I'll work on it in the spring.
Looking forward to planting out, getting some evergreen shrubs incorporated. I will also be buying a couple of different hardy palms and various different annuals.
I will also get around to painting the fence at some point. N
ew patio is going to have to wait till a later date as I don't think that I'll be able to afford it this year.
It's now been a year since I started this thread and 10 months since I started working on the garden.
Being a very new member to this forum, I have only just come across your thread, but, oh, my goodness, what a change you have brought about! Your garden looks great so far and the progress pics are fascinating. As someone with a much smaller garden, overlooked on all possible sides and from all possible angles, I am both envious and resigned to the fact that I cannot possibly achieve what you are aiming for! Your garden looks amazing. I love your style and how you are starting to bring everything together, and I am really looking forward to seeing what it looks like when it's "finished" (if a garden can ever be that). Come Spring, when everything bursts into life and is in full bloom, I bet it will look astonishing. Please post some more updates so we can see the transformation!
A friend was moving
house and offered me his Chamaerops humilis and Yucca rostrata.
Unfortunately they had to be dug up this weekend which isn't ideal
with next weeks weather..Anyway, i dug them up with as much rootball
as possible and have planted them in the garden. I added a good
amount of grit and some organic compost to the holes and covered with
some bark that I bought. Hopefully they will survive as they are nice
sized plants, over 10 years old.
On the top right
hand corner of the patio there is a nice sized Acer grisium that I
was also given. It's still in its nursery pot and I'll plant it in
spring. Just not sure where to put it yet...any ideas? I'm not sure if the borders are too small to plant it in and if it should go in the lawn somewhere..I love the paper bark maple.
I also have a
Trachycarpus fortunei, a Butia odorata and cordyline that are in
quite small pots (bottom right hand of the photo) I am trying to give
them some protection from this cold spell and will plant them once we
approach spring. I got them on sale from the palm centre last week.
I bought
some silver copse fence paint. I think it will really transform the
garden. I'm looking forward to doing this when we get a dry spell and
its a bit warmer..
(i've changed my mind on the hedge idea for now..)
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Sorry for the pics of the garden and veg beds, but we moved in in January and made all the raised beds so we're quite chuffed with how our gardens coming on too and can't help but share!
In short: great work, I really like it.
Hi,
Here's a little photo update.
A friend was moving house and offered me his Chamaerops humilis and Yucca rostrata. Unfortunately they had to be dug up this weekend which isn't ideal with next weeks weather..Anyway, i dug them up with as much rootball as possible and have planted them in the garden. I added a good amount of grit and some organic compost to the holes and covered with some bark that I bought. Hopefully they will survive as they are nice sized plants, over 10 years old.
On the top right hand corner of the patio there is a nice sized Acer grisium that I was also given. It's still in its nursery pot and I'll plant it in spring. Just not sure where to put it yet...any ideas? I'm not sure if the borders are too small to plant it in and if it should go in the lawn somewhere..I love the paper bark maple.
I also have a Trachycarpus fortunei, a Butia odorata and cordyline that are in quite small pots (bottom right hand of the photo) I am trying to give them some protection from this cold spell and will plant them once we approach spring. I got them on sale from the palm centre last week.
I bought some silver copse fence paint. I think it will really transform the garden. I'm looking forward to doing this when we get a dry spell and its a bit warmer..
(i've changed my mind on the hedge idea for now..)