Gardens in pictures -March 2008

Penelope_Penguin

annie123 wrote: »

good idea, didnt you do the same last year? I love looking at others gardens good way to pinch ideas!

Off to find camera

So I did :j Here's last year's thread - In my garden in March. It's good to see how much we've done last year :T

Penelope_Penguin

hardpressed wrote: »

Penelope Penguin could you tell me how you made the trellis? Is it curved? It doesn't appear to have any supporting posts so how does it stay up?

It's magic :T :j :rotfl: Seriously, I wanted curves in the garden, rather than straight lines, so yes it's a curved trellis with a curved border on each side of it. Through the trellis you can see the patio we laid in the Autumn. My plan is to cover the trellis with plants, so that you don't see all the garden as you come in, and the patio has some privacy.

The trellis has posts in the ground, then the trellis is made from thinner laths curved around and nailed on. DH designed and built it (I was his labourer ) and it wasn't too difficult. When this storm abates, I'll take some more close up pics and describe it a bit better.

grannybroon

Love your garden Pen Pen. What about Pyracantha? You need to be careful when pruning (thorns) but it is evergreen and the birds love the berries. You can get them with various berry colour (orange, red etc).

GB

AussieLass

Great idea Pen Pen. It's night time now but I'll try and take some photo's in the next day or so. Where are the chooks?

I think I would plant Jasmine on your trellis. The smell is lovely.

:wave: LashyLashla

Miró

HELPPP!!! Only been in house for a few months and feel totally overwhelmed by the idea of sorting out this rather neglected garden..... any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated. Even considering getting in a landscape gardener (:eek: at the expense!) cos it seems so daunting.

The 2 front 'patches' either side of the door needs something doing to them...just a few straggly bulbs there now, and a couple of unidentifiable, (to us), plants, (and weeds and grass!)




The back has a very, very long thin garden which is currently half grass and half veggie patch and looks very odd to me...I'm sure much more could be made of it!



The conservatory looks out onto a walled and raised bed which is currently dominated by overgrown conifers and tired heathers which are all going to come out...but what to replace them with that will give interest and colour all year round but which won't grow too tall and obscure the rest of the view of the garden from the conservatory???

hex2

PP - good to see this thread again! Thanks for the link to the old one - it has made me appreciate just how much we have done in the last year.

Half of the front moss pit last March:


To the same place in September:


The main spring project is to do something to the other half of the front lawn - the moss is even worse. Used to be the hard standing for the horse and carriage so we were hoping for cobblestones, but no, six inches down you hit tramac on top of concrete, so no suprises why the grass/moss is in such a state. Mini-digger? LOs would be in heaven at least!

Love the curved trellis, will be showing that to DH when he comes home.

What about clematis - ones to flower at different times of the year? We have rosa rambling rector (because it smells lovely), clematis cirrhosa, and a clematis appleblossom making their way up the front arbour - so that I have a range of flowering times. I have two winter flowering honeysuckles as well - fragrantissimo, and winter beauty - both lovely smells. Sorry - rubbish at plant names and spelling!

hex2

Miro - that is lovely! Which way does the front face?

We only moved in a year ago, so I do sympathise. I tried not to mess with too much last year, just taking out the obviously dead or yucky (I am allergic to conifers, so they had to go), and am only really now starting to make deeper changes. The books advise tp try and watch for a year to see what comes up, how the light changes, why things are where they are, etc and at the same time give some thought to the medium term plan. If it was mine I would fill the front beds up with blowsy cottage style planting and get a wisteria on the front, and I would re-structure the back into a series of areas with linking paths. Take lots of pictures so you can see what you have done.

Jack's_mummy

Ok here is mine from this morning.
The area know as the back border, which is actually only about 5 metres from the house:rotfl:

And next is the view back to the house, you can just see my newly acquired junior greenhouse thing to the right


And then this is the half of the front garden that I use to grow veggies in pots. It's totally wasted space otherwise as it's infront of the garage window. Excuse the state of the beech hedge it had to have a serious haircut and not is half the width it was and so a bit bare:rotfl:

Miró

hex2 wrote: »

Miro - that is lovely! Which way does the front face?

We only moved in a year ago, so I do sympathise. I tried not to mess with too much last year, just taking out the obviously dead or yucky (I am allergic to conifers, so they had to go), and am only really now starting to make deeper changes. The books advise tp try and watch for a year to see what comes up, how the light changes, why things are where they are, etc and at the same time give some thought to the medium term plan. If it was mine I would fill the front beds up with blowsy cottage style planting and get a wisteria on the front, and I would re-structure the back into a series of areas with linking paths. Take lots of pictures so you can see what you have done.

Hi

The front faces south. I lurve the idea of wisteria...there is a passionfruit there now which might have potential and a quince but we have been told that never fruits much. The wait and see approach makes a lot of sense but we are not likely to be in the house above about 3 yrs so would like to dive in and get it fairly presentable straight away. Especially want the back bit near the house looking good soon cos I'm planning lots of lounging about with drinkies in the sun this summer.

We have already ripped out a horrible, raggedy overgrown old pampas grass which was acting as a sort of punctuation mark, (if that makes sense?). Would like to replace it with something tall...praps a weeping cherry??

Another couple of problems...need to screen a big green plastic fuel tank on one side, about 15ft from the house and on the other side is a pair of original brick-built outside loos, now used for storage, (loos long gone ), in bad repair but can't be demolished cos they are holding up next door's shed....some sort of trellis or panelling with climbers praps??

I quite fancy the idea of staggered veggie beds at the back with linking paths and areas of grass but OH's idea is that he can drive a tractor down the long strip of grass and 'plough' the existing veggie bed in one fell swoop.....:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

pink.1970

Bit of a state at the moment but planning do get this part of garden up and running soon. We started to make a boxed garden for veggies, planted carrots and some courgettes but the wet weather ruined them.




I just love the colour of this cherry tree, both trees in pic were given to me by a friend who works in a garden centre apparantly they were going on the bonfire as they weren't up to centre standards for selling..