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Never ever thought I'd be into gardening but here we are.
3rd summer in the new place. Year 1 was getting the garden back from the jungle it had been left to grow into (also planted the red robin tree off to the right as we had new windows put in and if walking past you could see right into the shower cubicle of the main bathroom when it was opened to let steam out
),
Last year I properly tidied it up and prepped for making it nice this year.
Daffodils and tulips in bloom out the front. Got some spreading annuals to go down once they die away
Got some muscari coming through (little blue ones near the front)
Have slowly been prepping the lawn to get rid of the grass for clover once it's a bit warmer overnight.
The patch of soil below the front door is aspirationally a small cut flower patch - orange and black lillies, crocosmia, lupins and have some dahlias inside to go out once it warms up and a few other things. I'll likely need to extend the patch.
The bit at the right is a total pita, I've planted a buddlea which you can't really see as it's just a bare root at this point, we have the mini Christmas tree too that my wife about killed, we'll see if it makes it to get used next year. Planted a bunch of alpines there too - there's only an inch of soil before hitting rock / concrete in most parts of it so I'm giving it a year to see if anything takes otherwise I'll probably either put down gravel or pave it for a parking space :(
Got a jasmine in the big pot in front of the trellis I planted last autumn, looking forward to seeing how that turns out.
I've started a little container pond at the back and that lawn will be converted to Clover too. The right hand side (behind the tree) wraps right round and is wild, Ill strim it later on in the year but I'm pretty much just letting nature do it's thing there except at the top where I've got a planter for some herbs and veg.
Get lots of nice comments about what we've managed to do with the place from people passing by
Never ever thought I'd be into gardening but here we are.
3rd summer in the new place. Year 1 was getting the garden back from the jungle it had been left to grow into (also planted the red robin tree off to the right as we had new windows put in and if walking past you could see right into the shower cubicle of the main bathroom when it was opened to let steam out
), Last year I properly tidied it up and prepped for making it nice this year.
Daffodils and tulips in bloom out the front. Got some spreading annuals to go down once they die away
Got some muscari coming through (little blue ones near the front)
Have slowly been prepping the lawn to get rid of the grass for clover once it's a bit warmer overnight.
The patch of soil below the front door is aspirationally a small cut flower patch - orange and black lillies, crocosmia, lupins and have some dahlias inside to go out once it warms up and a few other things. I'll likely need to extend the patch.
The bit at the right is a total pita, I've planted a buddlea which you can't really see as it's just a bare root at this point, we have the mini Christmas tree too that my wife about killed, we'll see if it makes it to get used next year. Planted a bunch of alpines there too - there's only an inch of soil before hitting rock / concrete in most parts of it so I'm giving it a year to see if anything takes otherwise I'll probably either put down gravel or pave it for a parking space :(
Got a jasmine in the big pot in front of the trellis I planted last autumn, looking forward to seeing how that turns out.
I've started a little container pond at the back and that lawn will be converted to Clover too. The right hand side (behind the tree) wraps right round and is wild, Ill strim it later on in the year but I'm pretty much just letting nature do it's thing there except at the top where I've got a planter for some herbs and veg.
Get lots of nice comments about what we've managed to do with the place from people passing by
