I can do that, but a lot of my (veg) plants are grown in pots dotted all over the garden. It's chaotic - nothing like as organized as yours. I am very restricted by frequent flooding in the bottom half of my garden and mature shrubs where I would put flowers in the top. So there are the two main raised beds, plus another too in the shade. (There are trees in the area where I grow veg too...) The bottom of my garden is terribly untidy at the moment. I am ashamed of it. I would hesitate to photograph it as a whole...
Ok well actually that has made me feel worse as my garden - it's definitely up there! Two problems: clutter which of course can be sorted out. (This is partly husband's fault for gathering up anything on or near the 'wild' lawn down the bottom and shoving it in a corner... and mine for not sorting out the result... arguably.) And me just not being good at garden or indeed any sort of design. (Husband is not interested.) The house (which we bought in 2009) came with a garden that consisted of a 100ft long lawn divided into two by very large shrubs with more shrubs down either side (and a very scruffy and uneven patio at the top). The garden also slopes and as mentions floods at the bottom. I have cleared some of the shrubs in the top half, over the last two years, to make two flower borders, but 'making things look nice' is just not my forte. I started growing flowers quite recently mainly for photography (and caught the bug), and don't have a good grip on the bigger picture. So even after I have cleared up all the clutter (my house suffers from the same problem) it's not going to look lovely. But, the individual flowers are beautiful and the vegetables taste pretty good. All of the above is just the back garden, The front garden is a bit of a mare. Small, with a large but beautiful flowering cherry with all the roots that go with it, an invasive mahonia and a mysterious slab of concrete about 6 inches down extending over an area over about 2m x 3m from the front wall.
Apologies for side tracking the thread... It's all got me thinking though. I have one of these that I need to construct! https://www.suttons.co.uk/garden-equipment/all/original-veggie-bed_MH5510 Bought half price quite a while ago... What I really need is an allotment... (I am about no. 52 on the list so maybe I will get one before I am too old to work it.) The veg part of my garden was rather nice in a wild sort of way before I put the raised beds in...
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All of the above is just the back garden, The front garden is a bit of a mare. Small, with a large but beautiful flowering cherry with all the roots that go with it, an invasive mahonia and a mysterious slab of concrete about 6 inches down extending over an area over about 2m x 3m from the front wall.
It's all got me thinking though. I have one of these that I need to construct! https://www.suttons.co.uk/garden-equipment/all/original-veggie-bed_MH5510 Bought half price quite a while ago...
What I really need is an allotment... (I am about no. 52 on the list so maybe I will get one before I am too old to work it.) The veg part of my garden was rather nice in a wild sort of way before I put the raised beds in...