my challenge is to get the much longed for "long season of interest". In my somewhat shady city garden, spring is fab but there's not enough going on in summer and autumn. I'm nurturing some hardy annuals in my mini-greenhouse and planning to get more summer flowering bulbs in. Also to expand my edible growing repertoire beyond herbs and tomatoes. Happy Gardening New Year everyone!
For me, it's a new greenhouse, once I've removed some raised beds, cleared the rubbish, levelled the area and paved it... but you know, it wasn't that long ago since I had the middle garden to improve and it felt like a huge job, but we got there...so...rinse and repeat
My whole garden is a challenge. Its a wilderness. Completely overgrown with crocosmia. We made a good start last year. In one area of the garden. We have plenty in the greenhouse to put out in the garden. My mother in law used to own an alpine nursery. She has written books about alpines. So she's taken over my large overgrown rockery. I have no idea what us in there but I'm told rare and beautiful things. She tells me if a rockery looks good in its first year, you've done something wrong. So I'm excited to watch it grow this year as last year it was pretty but needed to spread out a bit.
Our main challenge this year is a large rectangular bed. Probably a good quarter of the garden. It's again completely bordered with crocosmia. If anyone wants any please just say. It's headed for the incinerator otherwise. There is a large honeysuckle in the middle. It's been left to run wild for about twenty years. There is not much left to save in that bed so we are gutting the whole area. I am creating a cottage garden. So we will have a complete blank canvas to play with.
Hi allium, bit of a late reply, but the hard landscape I'm planning is two patio areas, one to cover some old concrete at the back of the house, another to provide a sitting/eating area and access to our potting shed. These will be linked with a path and beside the path I'm planning a gravel area with individual slabs placed out in the gravel, to site pots of herbs.
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where's that packet of batteries I got last year?...
Is that for your head torch?
my challenge is to get the much longed for "long season of interest". In my somewhat shady city garden, spring is fab but there's not enough going on in summer and autumn. I'm nurturing some hardy annuals in my mini-greenhouse and planning to get more summer flowering bulbs in. Also to expand my edible growing repertoire beyond herbs and tomatoes. Happy Gardening New Year everyone!
Zoomer, if you're looking for tropical looking plants, check out this fab website for inspiration and tons of very witty info:
http://www.cooltropicalplants.com/index.html
My challenge for this year is to have half-way acceptable containers using some bought plants, some grown from seed that I haven't attempted before...
2014's pots and baskets were a disgrace so need to sort it out somehow and find out what's going wrong
For me, it's a new greenhouse, once I've removed some raised beds, cleared the rubbish, levelled the area and paved it...
but you know, it wasn't that long ago since I had the middle garden to improve and it felt like a huge job, but we got there...so...rinse and repeat
Thanks Hostafan have saved the site for future viewing. Jungleseeds is another good site for tropical looking plants.
Zoomer, read through it when you've time. Full of priceless info and lots and lots of wit.
I emailed him regarding suppliers and he mentioned jungleseeds. I'll have to check them out now we're over Christmas / new year.
My whole garden is a challenge. Its a wilderness. Completely overgrown with crocosmia. We made a good start last year. In one area of the garden. We have plenty in the greenhouse to put out in the garden. My mother in law used to own an alpine nursery. She has written books about alpines. So she's taken over my large overgrown rockery. I have no idea what us in there but I'm told rare and beautiful things. She tells me if a rockery looks good in its first year, you've done something wrong. So I'm excited to watch it grow this year as last year it was pretty but needed to spread out a bit.
Our main challenge this year is a large rectangular bed. Probably a good quarter of the garden. It's again completely bordered with crocosmia. If anyone wants any please just say. It's headed for the incinerator otherwise. There is a large honeysuckle in the middle. It's been left to run wild for about twenty years. There is not much left to save in that bed so we are gutting the whole area. I am creating a cottage garden. So we will have a complete blank canvas to play with.
Hi allium, bit of a late reply, but the hard landscape I'm planning is two patio areas, one to cover some old concrete at the back of the house, another to provide a sitting/eating area and access to our potting shed. These will be linked with a path and beside the path I'm planning a gravel area with individual slabs placed out in the gravel, to site pots of herbs.
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