Gardens in pictures - 2009

rev229

Lovely garden, wish mine was that big. How do you keep your grass so green?

Penelope_Penguin

rev229 wrote: »

Lovely garden, wish mine was that big. How do you keep your grass so green?

Thank you :A We don't do much to the lawn We've been here 12 years, and gave it a general lawn feed for the first time last year :eek:

Penny. x

rhiwfield

On a wet and windy Welsh morning..........

back garden:


side garden shaded by north facing gable end, retaining wall under repair which I hope to have finished by next month:

Lotus-eater

Pen, beautiful garden and loads of space, is that a buff orpington cockerel? And lovely lovely light sussex hens. You should move the run around a bit more so they get more grass.

Rhiwfield, a wonderful garden, it looks very productive, love all the raised beds and what looks like climbing fruit beds on the left. What fruit have you got?

Jack's_mummy

Not much to see in my postage garden at this time of year but here it is.
Back garden just starting to wake up


Front garden where I do the veggie growing. It's just all sitting there waiting


And my favourite bit at the moment - spring flowers under the hedge

Penelope_Penguin

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Pen, beautiful garden and loads of space, is that a buff orpington cockerel?

Thank you It's a pair of Buff Orpingtons (which we raised from "hatching eggs"). We're hoping they'll have chicks this summer :T

Penny. x

Kazonline

I am so jealous of those lovely gardens!!! Ah well, at least at the lottie I get company and lots of free advice (My 'garden' is almost entirely patio, and the lower part is virtually solid clay!)

rhiwfield

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Rhiwfield, a wonderful garden, it looks very productive, love all the raised beds and what looks like climbing fruit beds on the left. What fruit have you got?

Thanks, Lotus-Eater, we've stuck different fruit into every odd corner and tried to use vertical spaces by walls.

Stone fruit: 7 apples trees (all espaliered to save space, mix of dessert and cooking apples) and 1 greengage. The apple trees are 2-4 years old so some are just beginning to fruit productively. The gage seems too young still.
Soft fruit: raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants, blueberries and jostaberry.

The big plant in the far bed on the left is 25 yo honeysuckle that provides the most wonderful scent in the early summer

There are apple trees either side of it but they only went in last winter.

Lotus-eater

Thats a good lot of fruit. I've just thought about mine and I have alot as well.

I've got a plum tree and an old apple tree that are established. Two apple, two pear and a plum gone in this year and an apple and pear minarette gone in last year.

3 jostaberries, an old green gooseberry, 2 red gooseberry (not fruited yet), a loganberry, boysenberry, tayberry, black and red currants, 2 types of raspberry and a kiwi just gone in as well. And 3 blueberries in pots

And strawberries of course


and a fig tree in a pot that I bought for 99p at a garden centre sale and don't really want to put it in the soil, so will keep in a big pot......... and a mulberry tree in a pot as well come to think of it, its a bit of a experiment and I don't hold out massive hopes it will ever fruit.
In two or three years time, I should be swimming in fruit..... hopefully

rhiwfield

Thats some list!

How do you store or preserve your fruit?