Before and After - show us what you've done! 2024 🌳🪴

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  18 February edited 18 February

  I like that one too   It's good to see how, since 2022, the scheme has grown into itself and matured. It's look full and lush. Well done!
  

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  18 February

  Thank you @Fire.  One last one, winter 2023.
  
  
  

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• Meomye Posts: 949

  19 February

  I agree @Plantminded, fence colour and arch look lovely. I also love yours bull's head on the fence! well done!

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  19 February

  Thank you @Meomye. 

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• Oliya Posts: 228

  19 February

  What an inspirational transformation @Plantminded
  I wouldn’t be as brave to paint fence black but I can see in your garden it totally works! Your garden is very beautiful

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• greatnorthernexotic Posts: 119

  19 February

  I love the dicksonia antarctica, @Plantminded!
  
  Here's my transformation so far. I inherited a blank canvas in August 2019. Second picture is August 2023. (both from roughly the same viewpoint)
  
  
  
  Last year I also reclaimed more lawn and turned it into an arid / desert bed.
  
  
  

  Growing tropical and desert plants outdoors in West Yorkshire
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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  19 February

  Thank you @Oliya, that's very kind.  It took me a couple of years to take that step with the paint! Here's the other side of that area in August last year. There's a black bench there now too!
  
  
  

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  19 February

  Thank you @greatnorthernexotic. Your garden transformation is exceptional, well done! I would like to be able to grow more exotics here but the split level garden and my neighbour's 12 foot laurel hedge means I have very limited sunny space!

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  19 February

  @greatnorthernexotic - crazy cool transformation - such a lot of work! What a success!
  

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• greatnorthernexotic Posts: 119

  19 February

  Fire said:

  @greatnorthernexotic - crazy cool transformation - such a lot of work! What a success!
  

  Thank you @Fire - certainly doesn't look like that at the minute!  One of the downsides of going for the tropical / exotic look is that most of the garden either dies back to the ground or is wrapped in fleece from November to April. Last year I began to put in an evergreen backbone of winter hardy plants to complement the summer colour: trachycarpus, fargesia bamboos, fatsias, cordylines etc.
  
  But it's worth it!

  Growing tropical and desert plants outdoors in West Yorkshire
  INSTAGRAM/ YOUTUBE

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