My garden is 100ft long, average three bedroom house width, divided into three garden rooms and an end bit.
I am unsure how to classify my style but I do know that happiness is seeing sunlight on leaves. I must have neatness all year round and evergreen structure is essential. Artistically, shapes, forms, foliage, textures and leaf colours are my design considerations and I aspire to achieve drift/block planting that looks as good as CK and Sissinghurst.
My soil is sandy builder's rubble over clay subsoil and its south-west facing.
My gardening fault is taking up to two years to place a plant (or stop moving it) because I'm terrible crap at that bit
I am relatively new at gardening, I have a 'new build' garden, started with 100% lawn, I started with one border 1 foot wide and now have 3 borders and a square flower bed in the centre(new this year). West facing, clay soil in the back, builders rubble in the front. I am in the SE just north of London.
I am nuts about dahlias and sowing seeds. Design of my garden is lacking, it needs a theme or sculpture
Hello, all-looks like another sunny day here--yesterday I went to plant some lettuce seeds in an empty trough next to my berberis, {which is in a large pot at the mo.] I was delighted to spot several volunteer seedlings from the berberis, which I dug up and placed in pots. Free plants!!!!
I allow self-seeding in mine- sometimes it gets a bit out of hand. A couple of yrs back I mulched a new lawn bed with homemade compost & over the next couple of yrs had a wonderful display of self-seeders, especially the forget-me-nots! This yr have loads of Aquilegias, not yet fully out, but I did remove a lot last Autumn.
I've taken the fleeces off both greenhouse & coldframe plants as there is sufficient cloud cover, I hope, to prevent too low temps overnight.
Oh & have watered all those tomatoes on daughter's sill. Some will need potting on this next week, so hopefully my energy levels will allow it. J.
I have been gardening for around 40 years but still pick up new ideas-this is out third home, I have a small front garden that gets covered in containers on the hard standing bit in the middle in summer surrounded by small borders mostly perennials and roses.
On the front of the house will be wall baskets, hanging baskets down the side-more containers
The back sounds about the same size of yours has the chicken pen, more beds and small borders,more baskets, a greenhouse for tomatoes etc and raising plants a bed for the dahlias and places for beans, apple tree, fruit bushes, trellis for climbers and a grass area for sitting in the sun (?)
I watch too much tv-love XF and BGT and am unashamedly very shallow
Thanks for the info guys. Its nice to know your gardens as well as yourselves.
I made a mistake about my aspect, its North-West, not South-west a bit like when my driving instructor asks me to make a left turn and I go right
Ah well. A picture of my front patch which I planted up for ease and because its really crappy soil, lots of rubble and I wanted easy shrubs with lots contrast.
The Cherry tree is desperate for a pruning, that's my backside up a ladder in early summer! Its as tall as the house! As is the Ceanothus which is famous in my neighbourhood when it flowers in May. I brought a 5litre pot 15yrs ago and the nurseryman told me they can die at planting, so I took a baby and the mummy plant promptly died, and this was the baby *coughs* once! It goes round the corner now!
The front has wallflowers that self sow every year, a massive Hebe and the other side you cant see has Crocosmia, Sedum, Tulips and geranium Johnson's Blue as well as a Buddleia, and a climbing rose! All plants propgated or relocated to the front garden for ease.
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My garden is 100ft long, average three bedroom house width, divided into three garden rooms and an end bit.
I am unsure how to classify my style but I do know that happiness is seeing sunlight on leaves. I must have neatness all year round and evergreen structure is essential. Artistically, shapes, forms, foliage, textures and leaf colours are my design considerations and I aspire to achieve drift/block planting that looks as good as CK and Sissinghurst.
My soil is sandy builder's rubble over clay subsoil and its south-west facing.
My gardening fault is taking up to two years to place a plant (or stop moving it) because I'm terrible crap at that bit
Can I ask others to share their garden credentials?
I'd love to understand your gardens more.
I am relatively new at gardening, I have a 'new build' garden, started with 100% lawn, I started with one border 1 foot wide and now have 3 borders and a square flower bed in the centre(new this year). West facing, clay soil in the back, builders rubble in the front. I am in the SE just north of London.
I am nuts about dahlias and sowing seeds. Design of my garden is lacking, it needs a theme or sculpture
Hello, all-looks like another sunny day here--yesterday I went to plant some lettuce seeds in an empty trough next to my berberis, {which is in a large pot at the mo.] I was delighted to spot several volunteer seedlings from the berberis, which I dug up and placed in pots. Free plants!!!!
I love free plants
I allow self-seeding in mine- sometimes it gets a bit out of hand. A couple of yrs back I mulched a new lawn bed with homemade compost & over the next couple of yrs had a wonderful display of self-seeders, especially the forget-me-nots! This yr have loads of Aquilegias, not yet fully out, but I did remove a lot last Autumn.
I've taken the fleeces off both greenhouse & coldframe plants as there is sufficient cloud cover, I hope, to prevent too low temps overnight.
Oh & have watered all those tomatoes on daughter's sill. Some will need potting on this next week, so hopefully my energy levels will allow it. J.
Wintersong-seeing as you asked
I have been gardening for around 40 years but still pick up new ideas-this is out third home, I have a small front garden that gets covered in containers on the hard standing bit in the middle in summer surrounded by small borders mostly perennials and roses.
On the front of the house will be wall baskets, hanging baskets down the side-more containers
The back sounds about the same size of yours has the chicken pen, more beds and small borders,more baskets, a greenhouse for tomatoes etc and raising plants a bed for the dahlias and places for beans, apple tree, fruit bushes, trellis for climbers and a grass area for sitting in the sun (?)
I watch too much tv-love XF and BGT and am unashamedly very shallow
-you might not be interested in the last bit
I have just measured my garden 40ft long, no wonder I have no room for veg.
Jo I am impressed that you have made it into the garden.
It is really sunny here, just cannot trust that it will be nice tomorrow.
Thanks for the info guys. Its nice to know your gardens as well as yourselves.
I made a mistake about my aspect, its North-West, not South-west a bit like when my driving instructor asks me to make a left turn and I go right
Ah well. A picture of my front patch which I planted up for ease and because its really crappy soil, lots of rubble and I wanted easy shrubs with lots contrast.
The Cherry tree is desperate for a pruning, that's my backside up a ladder in early summer!
Its as tall as the house! As is the Ceanothus which is famous in my neighbourhood when it flowers in May. I brought a 5litre pot 15yrs ago and the nurseryman told me they can die at planting, so I took a baby and the mummy plant promptly died, and this was the baby *coughs* once! It goes round the corner now!
The front has wallflowers that self sow every year, a massive Hebe and the other side you cant see has Crocosmia, Sedum, Tulips and geranium Johnson's Blue as well as a Buddleia, and a climbing rose! All plants propgated or relocated to the front garden for ease.