I like this "before and after", showing the potential for pots in rented spaces.
He's wrong in referring to med planting like lavender and rosemary as "drought tolerant" plants in pots. Drought tolerant border plants are often not remotely "drought tolerant" in a pot. You also don't remotely need earth to site a compost bin. A rubbish bin with a lid and drainage holes is great. But still.
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.
Delightfully, we now get to enjoy this transformed space with the help of a lot more greenery than we had in May. The honeysuckle has started its scramble offer the trellis, the clematis is doing its thing on the back fence, the grasses and verbena have gone well and the pond has filled out nicely. The 'lawn' was laid two weeks ago and has taken well - we've only done that small space because we didn't want to have to dig it up when knocking down the garage.
I've enjoyed looking through this thread again. I'd posted photos of my old garden ealier but now I've been in this house 2 years and 4 months I'm going to look out some before and after photos. Though it is still work in progress.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
This was the garden of the house I bought in January 2021 in Dordogne, France, having sold my old family home that was too big and too isolated, also in Dordogne, on Page 4. No flower beds, lots of rather rough grass.
This is today, in the rain.
The first beds I made, by the vegetable garden gate.
June 2021, only a few months later.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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After..
This is today, in the rain.
The first beds I made, by the vegetable garden gate.
June 2021, only a few months later.
Jan 2121
June 2021
The Shrub Bed.
March 2021
This morning in the rain.
October 2021.
August 2022
The Orchard Border. Jan 2021. Roses and Perennials along the fence.
November 2022.
Today, 9th May 2023
There are a couple more beds but I think that's enough.