Hey Fairygirl! Thank you for your kind comments. It's supposed to be a low-maintenance front garden just for relaxing in whenever possible (I don't have a back garden to care for at home as that is the garden from my daughter and family) but I do tend to overplant so it is looking a little full at the moment.
Imyk, dont say you arent a gardener! You have done realy well, have been trying for 4 years to get a wildflower meadow going, have just got a few field poppies his year, ordered a new wildflower turf, am rather cross, site (used last time) said 3-5 working days,then was told I would have it last Friday, still no sign. If there is going to be a delay, for whatever reason I would rather folk just kept you up to speed. I am on clay, I dug up the grass turf ready, so of course its like a brick now,impossible to break down, if I had left the grass, it would have stayed a bit more moist underneath, we have had such hot dry weather for the last couple of weeks, I have been watering it. The isnt a garden Cornelly, that someones Stately home surely?
Thanks Nanny Beach and cornelly. This is just the nursery mix flowering this summer with the proper meadow mix coming up underneath. It's quite exciting not knowing what that will look like yet. I used Emorsgate seeds, they have special mixes for different soil types and service was excellent!
Our garden is about 85 metres long by about 8 and a half wide, it is three parcels of land plus the original garden, we have three patio areas a large glasshouse and shed, and a veg plot, all the plants are perrenials,trees and shrubs, to keep it managable, the front garden is about 4 x4 metres and is all winter/spring flowering heathers, we found when we moved in that it was where the concrete mixer had stood during the building and difficult to do much with, the heathers love it.
Just checked your profile The helpful herpatologist and I'm afraid that I have sacrificed my small pond in the garden for growing bullrushes and one very "stinky" plant that I brought home last year from an RHS garden!
I used to find newts in the garden but no longer. :-(
My fondness for ponds and bog gardens has dramatically decreased the number of slugs as l currently have the amphibian hat trick of frogs, newts and toads all of which love slugs. l still get the odd slug or two in damp weather but nowhere near as many.
That's an amazing size to manage but it looks lovely! Do you have a sit-on mower for the grass?
When I took over my allotment (300sqm) here it was pretty bare, on a slope and full of small stones which I raked all the way to the bottom to form a very stony "bed" as border not knowing at first what I was going to put in it. I got some gooseberry bushes given me in the first weeks and as I hadn't finished the layout, I just dug them in there. All these years later, I now have a lovely bed of 6 gooseberry bushes, one black current and two blueberry bushes (although these are new). I usually get between 10 and 12 kilos of fruit from the bushes every year. Amazing! I love them but they seem to have gone out of fashion nowadays but I give the jam as presents or put frozen gooseberries in my cocktails! ?
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Well done Imyk, lovely.
Top third of our garden.
Esther Reads, Hydrangia, rambling Rose.
Wow!
Wow ditto!! How big is your garden Cornelly?
Hey Fairygirl! Thank you for your kind comments. It's supposed to be a low-maintenance front garden just for relaxing in whenever possible (I don't have a back garden to care for at home as that is the garden from my daughter and family) but I do tend to overplant so it is looking a little full at the moment.
Imyk, dont say you arent a gardener! You have done realy well, have been trying for 4 years to get a wildflower meadow going, have just got a few field poppies his year, ordered a new wildflower turf, am rather cross, site (used last time) said 3-5 working days,then was told I would have it last Friday, still no sign. If there is going to be a delay, for whatever reason I would rather folk just kept you up to speed. I am on clay, I dug up the grass turf ready, so of course its like a brick now,impossible to break down, if I had left the grass, it would have stayed a bit more moist underneath, we have had such hot dry weather for the last couple of weeks, I have been watering it. The isnt a garden Cornelly, that someones Stately home surely?
Thanks Nanny Beach and cornelly. This is just the nursery mix flowering this summer with the proper meadow mix coming up underneath. It's quite exciting not knowing what that will look like yet. I used Emorsgate seeds, they have special mixes for different soil types and service was excellent!
Norwin.
Our garden is about 85 metres long by about 8 and a half wide, it is three parcels of land plus the original garden, we have three patio areas a large glasshouse and shed, and a veg plot, all the plants are perrenials,trees and shrubs, to keep it managable, the front garden is about 4 x4 metres and is all winter/spring flowering heathers, we found when we moved in that it was where the concrete mixer had stood during the building and difficult to do much with, the heathers love it.
My fondness for ponds and bog gardens has dramatically decreased the number of slugs as l currently have the amphibian hat trick of frogs, newts and toads all of which love slugs. l still get the odd slug or two in damp weather but nowhere near as many.
Cornelly
That's an amazing size to manage but it looks lovely! Do you have a sit-on mower for the grass?
When I took over my allotment (300sqm) here it was pretty bare, on a slope and full of small stones which I raked all the way to the bottom to form a very stony "bed" as border not knowing at first what I was going to put in it. I got some gooseberry bushes given me in the first weeks and as I hadn't finished the layout, I just dug them in there. All these years later, I now have a lovely bed of 6 gooseberry bushes, one black current and two blueberry bushes (although these are new). I usually get between 10 and 12 kilos of fruit from the bushes every year. Amazing! I love them but they seem to have gone out of fashion nowadays but I give the jam as presents or put frozen gooseberries in my cocktails! ?