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What are your garden plans for next year?

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  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    ViewAhead said:
    McRazz said:

    -Build a Heligan'esqe giants head in the front garden. 
    Thinking  big, eh? 😂
    My garden really is quite compact so perhaps a scaled version peeking out from beneath the front hedge. I still want to incorporate a nice spray of crocosmia hair though!


  • I feel a new passion may be about to burst forth.  Thank you for all the info, @Fire.  😁
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    ooo, let it burst!
  • 😁  Just accidentally uncovered a big frog sheltering below damp oak leaves.  I quickly put these back.  Clearly the need for a pond exists ... 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I can potentially eke out some more planting space by creating a step across the width of the garden down at the bottom. I would have to lift some very heavy slabs though so we shall see if it actually happens or not!
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    We will be digging everything out from one of the borders and grassing it over.  I can’t cope with it all.  
    As Mick Jagger said ‘What a drag it is getting old’ 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Lyn  Better than the alternative though.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Absolutely ,   At least I have good health,  achy but healthy.  There’s a lot to be said for that.   I was offered a blood test when I had my flu jab,  hadn’t had one for 30  years,  I just know they’ll find a tablet that will help me.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • I have some big ideas (well, big for me!) for our new garden in 2024, but I know that the sensible thing is to give it time to show me what is actually growing, and what grows well.

    I recognise that a new path needs laying (obviously need a few chickens!), and particularly some paving slabs through the archway. 

    I know it's too late for things such as raspberry canes, redcurrant and blackcurrant bushes. 

    I do want to verify what fruit trees exist. What the owner said there is, and what I think there is, differ. Only time will tell. 

    I would like crocuses, narcissi, tulips and more to go in. Agapanthus, hydrangeas, callicarpa too.

    But what do we have? That's the exciting part.
    And how much shade and full sun do we have?
    Technically, given that much could come out, it basically leaves us with a blank canvas.
    I want to encourage small birds.

    Oh yes, and I must buy a lawnmower!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don’t rely on chickens laying the path,  mine never did. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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