To brighten up those concrete slabs, you need to obtain some stencils, and then you can paint pretty welcoming designs on the path up to your front door.
Buy, or make, a stencil of a wheelbarrow, and spray each slab with a pink wheelbarrow design.
To further enhance the garden, it needs a focal point at the centre. I suggest a pink wheelbarrow, mounted on a plinth. A pretty wheelbarrow is wasted using it as a container for weeds.
I guarantee that no-one else in your neighbourhood will have a garden like that.
Actually you need another wheelbarrow, wooden, with holes, that you can spray pink, and plant up with geraniums, petunias, and trailing stuff, etc. And use that as a centrepiece.
Coffee break. Then quick dog walk and off to man the office for the rescue dogs. I have to say, it's good to read about people's plans and ideas - I may get inspired to deal with the wilderness, which is where the chooks roam. I have bought some shrubs that I hope chooks won't eat but there are tedious and hassly jobs to be done before planting is possible. I know, I know, I should have waited but when you see a plant you just have to have it
The above empty space should have had a New Year Logo in it, but it didn't work. I was trying to work out how you get Google images to appear here. How on earth did Gary put the pink wheelbarrow on the lawn?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Am amazed at how long it takes to dismantle a tree. Daughter will have lots of decorations for her house- we've already had a bit of a sort out, but they will all go away into their usual boxes for the meantime.
1 decision has been made. Am dragging OH to GC on Saturday, after supermarket shop. Then can buy a half-price 'skinny' tree in the sale. OH will be on hand to load box into car too. Have checked up on the proposed cabinet depth & measured existing tree & it just wont work where I thought, with needing access to a socket for lights. BUT, daughter will, hopefully, have a bay window! So she can have our wide tree & have to decorate both sides this time! She actually agrees a good idea! So there will be 2 trees, all being well in the loft this time!
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Pam -as the decision has now been made-going to go with the flow-que-sera, que- sera after all
No problem is insurmountable-I can see hundreds ahead on a practical level-but will cope
Is that a dongle coming out of my amaryllis?
To brighten up those concrete slabs, you need to obtain some stencils, and then you can paint pretty welcoming designs on the path up to your front door.
Buy, or make, a stencil of a wheelbarrow, and spray each slab with a pink wheelbarrow design.
To further enhance the garden, it needs a focal point at the centre. I suggest a pink wheelbarrow, mounted on a plinth. A pretty wheelbarrow is wasted using it as a container for weeds.
I guarantee that no-one else in your neighbourhood will have a garden like that.
Actually you need another wheelbarrow, wooden, with holes, that you can spray pink, and plant up with geraniums, petunias, and trailing stuff, etc. And use that as a centrepiece.
Pam!
Coffee break. Then quick dog walk and off to man the office for the rescue dogs. I have to say, it's good to read about people's plans and ideas - I may get inspired to deal with the wilderness, which is where the chooks roam. I have bought some shrubs that I hope chooks won't eat but there are tedious and hassly jobs to be done before planting is possible. I know, I know, I should have waited but when you see a plant you just have to have it
GEOFF is this a proper decision or are you just dipping your toe in the water again?
Lots of lovely photos, I will have a search of mine later to see if I have a decent one.
I have been to the GC and bought 130 tulips that are half price
so I now need to find some containers to put them in.
How anyone can give their front garden an instant style makeover....
No -Kate-this is firm decision-the toe dipping is over-from next week shall be waiting all sensible offers
There you are Bjay-Gary has solved all your problems with a few clicks
Pam-that is a very big dongle by any stretch of the imagination
The above empty space should have had a New Year Logo in it, but it didn't work. I was trying to work out how you get Google images to appear here. How on earth did Gary put the pink wheelbarrow on the lawn?
Back again, lunchtime snack here.
Am amazed at how long it takes to dismantle a tree. Daughter will have lots of decorations for her house- we've already had a bit of a sort out, but they will all go away into their usual boxes for the meantime.
1 decision has been made. Am dragging OH to GC on Saturday, after supermarket shop. Then can buy a half-price 'skinny' tree in the sale. OH will be on hand to load box into car too.
Have checked up on the proposed cabinet depth & measured existing tree & it just wont work where I thought, with needing access to a socket for lights. BUT, daughter will, hopefully, have a bay window! So she can have our wide tree & have to decorate both sides this time! 
She actually agrees a good idea! 
So there will be 2 trees, all being well in the loft this time!
Right, must crack on. J.