Garden plans and new discoveries

How excited am i!!

I finally have some money to put towards the garden and i'm loving it. I've just done a bit of tearing down, trimming, pulling up and wow, what potential does my gardne have!Behind a huge mass of dead stuff i found a huge leafy shrub with beautiful berries sprouting from it! And beside it climbing up a wall i didnt know i had i found a buddlia!!

Was trimming down my explosive holly which is still producing berries, and found a little climber which has lovely little purple flowers popping up!

I cant wait for my camera to charge so i can get some IDs on these new things!

Also just planted in my lily bulb, lily citronella i think! I believe its quite common but i love yellow plants! Plus a little corriander in its own diddy pot that i got free at the shop, as well as 3 pentsemons [sp?] a whiteish one, a pink one and a purple one. Yay!

My dahlia is doing well, Geraniums waking up a bit and looking healthy, and my violas... well time will tell.

So happy though, i have many plans for the garden, i have several raised areas which i plan to make little 'exhibitions' out of, one being my dad [being a lifeboatsman and fisherman] picking up nice chunks of driftwood which i plan pile up and hand windchimes from. :D

I have acquired an old pretty garden table, sort of rustic-y complete with own rustic-y mould up leg and makes it look all 'secret garden-y' plus popped out a bird bath and fat balls for my only visitors, a pair of black birds, a robin and a wren whom have never left me and always encouraged me sinec i moved in! :D

SO happy!!

 

Sounds FAB!!!!!

...how are the sweet peas coming along?

 

Looking decidedly like pots of soil currently.

I must say, i just want to grow lots of stuff right now! I have so little, and i want so much!

I'm currently moving the rat room into our great big living room and changing over [lucky rats, poor boyfriend!] and will have a lovely little sholve just perfect for growing seedlets, and am tempted to go a bit crazy and do loads.

If anyone fancies sending me left over seeds or magazine freebies i'd very much appriciate it! :D

 

It is entirely possible that i just bought more seeds for various things on ebay.

Is weakness a sin? Or does growing new beautiful things outway it? My shoulder crickets are getting confused.

 

Sounds wonderful Whiley, like discovering hidden treasure! I have some mixed Antirrhinum seeds you can have which I collected last year. Just PM your address.

 

Likewise, Whiley - let me know what sort of seeds you'd particularly like and I'll send whatever ones match with what I've got! You won't have space for all this! :D

 

Sounds glorious whiley, new discoveries and big plans. You'll have to put some pics up of your garden before and as you preceed.

 

Planing is good but getting suck in is a lot more fun.

 

Thank you all so much! SO looking forward to it, weather permitting i will have a good old bash this weekend - work is toiling me all daylight hours at the moment sadly.

Will PM addresses around!

 

SO MANY SEEDS! I'm bouncing with excitement! I need to go to town and get more soil and trays and pots and things!

 

Hehe, sounds great whiley. I've just got loads of seeds too to fill up my garden which is currently a blank canvass, and I can completely understand your itchy fingers. And the spending way more than you ought to on seeds, plants etc.! I don't even want to think about what i've spent on mine this year. I do think it's worth it though, hopefully (if they flourish!)

 

I've just moved my home around [to accomadate growing rattie population!] and have insisted that my computer overlooks the garden, and now it does! I can see my plants from here, and it makes me happy!

I've taken some photos i wanted to share, but low and behold, me blinking monitors died, so i'm having to use the boyfriends, which doesnt have my camera software on it, and noodlehead here cant find the disk. Meh.

I'll share it once it lives again!

Have got a nice collection of pots with various seeds growing on my desk [what else are casarole dishes for??] and earlier had a little jump for joy as my Camillas appear to be doing something. Hurrah!

 

Looking forward to seeing it. You do realise gardening is very addictive - but oh such much pleasure, as what you have grown shows off its flowers etc.