@TheGreenMan It's definitely been a lot of hits and misses. Some of the shrubs I planted last year don't work so they're going to be coming out next month. Fortunately they've only been in a year so hopefully they shouldn't be too difficult to lift 🤞
... It just goes to show that not everything works; gardening is really an almost open-ended experiment.
It is. Tastes and goals change too over time. I find that what I intended 4 years ago is now different. The goalposts have moved. I've changed my mind so many times I'm sure some of my plants are suffering travel sickness.
Top garden, other direction, July 15. There was a pergola under that lot somewhere. April 19. Dias relocated from old patio area Yesterday. Pergola and bed now replanted with roses, my latest crush...
This time last year we had a lot of grass and a LOT of weeds... (a washing pole, a few random plants and three very beautiful Indian Bean trees giving a bit too much shade)
After a lot of toil, reading, guessing and hoping, we now have... The potatoes that ate Liverpool! A greenhouse full of chili's, aubergine's and peppers, plus other raised veg beds with carrots, parsnips, leeks and lettuce. Onions, garlic and strawberry beds round the corner. A bog garden (cos we have clay soil and this corner just IS a bog anyway) Bricks are a temporary wind-break protecting that Rheum Palmatum A work-in progress long border A bespoke shed, hand-crafted by OH (roof to follow!) And these are just some of the tomatoes.
Loads still to do, but only having evenings and weekends and being total novices I am so proud of what we've created!
It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
Still very much a work in progress and the first of the plants only went in this March. The garden is on hold now because we'll be knocking down the garage to make space for a lawn which will cover all the ground to the right of the path and front of the pond, almost right up to the house. Once the garage has gone, we've got to face the blockwork retaining wall behind it with more of the reclaimed stone and I'll then tidy up the loose coping stones on the right of the waterfall.
The pergola looks bare but I've got a honeysuckle going great guns on the left side and a vine just planted on the right, both of which I'll train up and into the back corner. The plan is to fill out the space with the pyracantha that you can just see and put a trellis across the longer span up which we will run some clematis. The idea between the two clematis already there, the honeysuckle, pyracantha and trellis will be to create a green wall all around the patio. Next year.
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What a story! Amazing. It just goes to show that not everything works; gardening is really an almost open-ended experiment.
Your progress, hits and misses should give everyone who needs it hope!
Tastes and goals change too over time.
I find that what I intended 4 years ago is now different. The goalposts have moved.
I've changed my mind so many times I'm sure some of my plants are suffering travel sickness.
There was a pergola under that lot somewhere.
April 19. Dias relocated from old patio area
Yesterday. Pergola and bed now replanted with roses, my latest crush...
Ours is a new build garden — here it was as a blank canvas, roughly 7 square metres
We hired a garden designer + landscaper to make the most of the sunniest corner towards the back
New planting — having never gardened before, it was hard to believe these tiny plants would grow to fill the space
The garden after 2 years — plenty of low maintenance, evergreen plants so it keeps its form through winter
Here is the basic plan, including compass orientation
There was also space to the side for a shed and bin store; I updated my post to add a sketch showing the plan.
(a washing pole, a few random plants and three very beautiful Indian Bean trees giving a bit too much shade)
After a lot of toil, reading, guessing and hoping, we now have...
The potatoes that ate Liverpool! A greenhouse full of chili's, aubergine's and peppers, plus other raised veg beds with carrots, parsnips, leeks and lettuce. Onions, garlic and strawberry beds round the corner.
A bog garden (cos we have clay soil and this corner just IS a bog anyway) Bricks are a temporary wind-break protecting that Rheum Palmatum
A work-in progress long border
A bespoke shed, hand-crafted by OH (roof to follow!)
And these are just some of the tomatoes.
Loads still to do, but only having evenings and weekends and being total novices I am so proud of what we've created!
What we have in May 2022:
Still very much a work in progress and the first of the plants only went in this March. The garden is on hold now because we'll be knocking down the garage to make space for a lawn which will cover all the ground to the right of the path and front of the pond, almost right up to the house. Once the garage has gone, we've got to face the blockwork retaining wall behind it with more of the reclaimed stone and I'll then tidy up the loose coping stones on the right of the waterfall.
The pergola looks bare but I've got a honeysuckle going great guns on the left side and a vine just planted on the right, both of which I'll train up and into the back corner. The plan is to fill out the space with the pyracantha that you can just see and put a trellis across the longer span up which we will run some clematis. The idea between the two clematis already there, the honeysuckle, pyracantha and trellis will be to create a green wall all around the patio. Next year.