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New comer and new garden
I'm relatavley new to this forum. Thought I may share with you my garden. It's pretty bare at the moment but plenty of plans this year to get planting! These were taken in January but looks different now. Apologies that the pictures are sideways. If you click on the image it should be normal position.
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I love how the snow makes the garden look magical wether it's bare or not
Thanks Beaus Mum, the snow certainly brings it character! All the snow has melted now and today I have dug out a fresh veg patch!
That's a good size. What are the plans?
Wow...The two trees...are the standing close enough together? I'm thinking: hammock, cushions and book
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Looks as if a lot of things went on in there at some point. Are you revamping or have you recently moved there?
And please let us know about the plans, as Steve said. I have an equally blank canvas, I am a novice and in search for inspiration.
I get so annoyed when my pics refuse to stand up vertically on here and have photoshopped and all sorts, I had no idea that when you enlarge them the damned things move to the correct orientation!
Lots of lovely trees in the background.
I moved in about 10 months ago. The previous owners hadn't done anything with the garden and they popped down weed blanket (which doesn't work). So I ripped up the blanket and turned over the soil and treated it with manure whilst made my flower beds.
Plant wise, (spelling maybe questionable) I have planted red hot pokers (5) , echanachia, rudbeckia, calendula, foxgloves, lavender, 2 prycanthia, Daphne (smells lovely) White rose bush, hydrangea, dahlias lupins, hollyhocks, gladdys....
I have dafs, crocus and hycanth coming up now
Oh, echinacea. I must add one to my shopping list. In a way I can understand people just keeping a lawn short. I've only decided last year to turn this garden into a haven for bees and butterflies and as I never really had a garden that wasn't yet one, it's quite a daunting task. I can't really picture what things look like until they're planted and then I think it's too late. And I want to avoid central round flowerbeds and boring borders. It somebody had already done something, then at least I would have something to build up, but to build it from scratch I find quite scary. Take a look yourself, but don't be fooled...I don't have the Arabian desert in front of the house, I have neighbours on either side and I can't see the Pleiades at night time either lol
I tend to keep my lawn pretty long. I like to look after the wildlife and plants grow from long grasses which help the bees. So I do keep long ish lawns.
i don't really follow any "rules" as such. I plant flowers that I like and pop them where I Want. I Don't keep things neat and I just prefer them to blend in with each other
If I didn't keep the lawns short, Jazdean, I'd get a snottogram from The Princess of Darkness, in which she'd inform me that I am in breech of the tenancy agreement and she'd deliver that in the speed of a dart. The neighbour to the right as you look at the house, has a hedge and he gets at least two letters from her per season. He doesn't know how else to explain to her that he just can't cut the hedge when she got up on the wrong foot.
Last year I asked if I could plant a hedge but this is no longer allowed, as they want to be able to see inside the gardens, to make sure we are all keeping them nice and tidy, possibly anaemic. So I have decided to start planting shrubs randomly for a start, because I want to sit in my garden and when I do that, I'd like to shut the rest of the world out.