As a new gardener I've been lurking on this site for a year or two and got some fantastic advice here. Thought it was time to show what I've managed to do since moving to this new house a couple of years ago but no prior gardening knowledge. The garden was a blank slate, basically patio, grass and piles of rubbish. I've now really got the bug and I'm chuffed with my first attempt at a border which seems to have really matured this year. Thanks to everyone for helping me along the way!
Lovely pics Hello Cardoon.....beautiful 'Pom Poms' I have Pom Pom envy at the moment!! Definitely getting some for nest year, even if my neighbour did tell me they were just onions, muppet LOL!
Are those pink ones Papavers Chicky, they are gorgeous ? My first one has flowered today......I really need to upload my pics.
Pink ones are papavers - oriental poppies - they take a few years to get going in my patch (by which time i have lost the label - but think this one is MrsP?!?*#??) but then they are here to stay. Like so many things in the garden, patience eventually pays off .... Wish i had more of it
The Papaver? It is absolutely beautiful, I have Papaver Harlem which has flowered today, a deeper colour than I thought it would be but still lovely, I need to move it though at the end of summer, it's grown bigger than I though it would!
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As a new gardener I've been lurking on this site for a year or two and got some fantastic advice here. Thought it was time to show what I've managed to do since moving to this new house a couple of years ago but no prior gardening knowledge. The garden was a blank slate, basically patio, grass and piles of rubbish. I've now really got the bug and I'm chuffed with my first attempt at a border which seems to have really matured this year. Thanks to everyone for helping me along the way!
Hi Cardoon, what a very pretty garden. Lovely hostas and ferns. Love the pompoms too
Thank you for sharing.
Looks fab cardoon - love the colours in your border, and those hostas in your courtyard are wonderful. Welcome to the Garden Gallery posse
Lizzie - can't believe you have phlox in flower already - its all looking so summery
Looking flowery here too ..... although phlox are a long way off .....
Lovely pics
Hello Cardoon.....beautiful 'Pom Poms' I have Pom Pom envy at the moment!! 
Definitely getting some for nest year, even if my neighbour did tell me they were just onions, muppet LOL! 
Are those pink ones Papavers Chicky, they are gorgeous
? My first one has flowered today......I really need to upload my pics.
Pink ones are papavers - oriental poppies - they take a few years to get going in my patch (by which time i have lost the label - but think this one is MrsP?!?*#??) but then they are here to stay. Like so many things in the garden, patience eventually pays off
.... Wish i had more of it 
Don't we all Chicky.......I'm working on stealing some more of the grass somehow
Just had a google - she is actually called Forncett Summer
The Papaver? It is absolutely beautiful, I have Papaver Harlem which has flowered today, a deeper colour than I thought it would be but still lovely, I need to move it though at the end of summer, it's grown bigger than I though it would!
Love your pink poppies Chicky. Not phlox though - that's July. They are red Sweet Williams.
Your bed is lovely, Cardoon, looks mature already. No one would know you are new to gardening.