Our Garden Before & After

savemoney

What a lovely garden. I like the coloured fence/shed too

totallybored wrote: »

I've only got my after pic. When we moved in the shed was shed coloured, as were the fences. The wall at the back was grey breeze blocks and there were no plants apart from the cheery blossom and the fir tree type thing on the right.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58047665@N07/5539452655

ellay864

Only just found this thread and am loving the ideas on here. My garden had got into a total mess. The shed was almost collapsing, there were old cracked paths leading up the middle of the garden (to nowhere!) and bushes were totally overgrown. My OH moved in a couple of years ago and decided to give it an overhaul. It was a project that took 18 months just to get the garden itself sorted as we did it all ourselves and had to budget. We now have a very neat garden and need to start populating it properly. If anyone wants to nosey I have some pics in an album that shows it from just after the work started - it looks really bad as it's after the shed was taken down and bushes cut away (and in between we also had a fire that nuked a very tall pine we have!). But it follows the progess in laying new patio, paving, putting in raised beds and then laying a new lawn...which ended up coinciding with a hosepipe ban here even though it never stopped raining; on the day the lawn was laid we were in danger of recreating Glastonbury at the back of the house! Since the final pic we now have a new shed at the back of the garden and some plants in the beds but your lovely pics on here of the various containers have given me inspiration for cheering up my patio area
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2067687&id=1126725358&l=77f0cbccd3

Widelats

Optimisticpair wrote: »

It depends on the cause of the waterlogging and what you want to grow doesn't it. My last front garden was clay and had been compacted down from use so it needed loosening and improving. I had to double dig borders and incorporate bulky humus. You can spike a lawn to aerate it.

yes, i got no idea of the cause yet im still busy decorating the house, but i will get round to it when i can, it gets badly waterlogged i think i will try some runners too. My front garden is fine.

first i will overturn the whole garden and see what that does