what does your garden look like at the mo?

I was going to attach a photo but I am just so embarassed to admit the garden is mine that i just cant do it. I knew last year that my garden was in need of dire help and to be honest in late spring early summer it looks ok but now it looks atrocious! I know that gardens in winter havent got much going for them and theres big gaps where perennials have yet to emerge and what not but just looking at the bottom of the gaden from left to right are:
leylandii in need of a good trim
laurel ditto
very bare lloking frau dagmar rose
ebbingi malculata I think from memory in need of shaping
couple of dogwoods
a bush -origin unknown
a very bare tree woth a pigeon in it!
there are some sporadic things at the front but very twiggy.

the whole outlook is something def past its best, the only colour from the maculata and looking very sorry for itself!

If anyone has photos of their overall borders at the mo they could share to give me a bit of -what it could be like- then i would be very grateful!

 

dont be embarrassed by your garden because I dont think anybody looks at there garden and thinks its finished it is always a work in progress and even then half the time you end up changing it as you learn more and find other plants that take your fancy I always have a favourite plant of the moment finding room for them all tends to end up the problem, a nice fresh and shiny year to start spicing yours up go for it.

 

My garden leaves a lot to be desired. There was a time when I had more time, and would wrap up, and 'tidy up', just a bit - though by no means meticulously. However, the general feel at the moment in my patch is of neglect!

The lawn is quite sparce - and soggy, and mossy in places, and raggedy around the edges. I fight with the bare stems of honeysuckles and clematis at my backdoor. There's still lots needing cut back too. I cut my lilac back into it's ball shape last weekend (in between showers) - I know - completely wrong time of year! And hacked back the bushiness of my eucalyptus. My 6 ft 4 brother is visiting in a couple of weeks time - and hope he can reach the long tufts I've left un-reached at the top!

You're not alone! Once the days stretch out, and there's warmth in the sun, you will feel motivated to go into action! My hamamelis is beginning to flower! Yeah - something to celebrate!

 

I've made the garden low maintenance.
80% is pea shingle with tubs and the odd ornament.
Have 15 box shrubs down one side and on the other two tubs with blood grass in them.(On shingle)
The back has two tubs with heather in each and an assortment of ornament dotted around.(On shingle)
The front is the only bare soil there is, which comprise of honysuckle bushes, a heather, hebe all kept at two foot by two foot balls and two crocosmia. The rest of the bed is filled with summer bedding or winter bedding when required.
Oh, I do like the easy life!

 

My garden !

There's a list of jobs as lomg as my ..... legs, and I'm a big guy !

TTFN

 

The allotment is looking a bit neglected.It wasnt rotovated at the back end of last yr as i still had stuff growing,so im just gonna dig away, a bit at a time for the next couple of weeks.I`ve done about a third so far for some early spuds and i`ll just chuck some manure in the bottom of the trenches when i plant them in March.I did incorporate loads of manure in `05 so im not too worried for this season.I have a patch for flowers,about 35 square meters but Mr.Fiz is slowly reducing this with flag stones.I went over the other day to find he`d left 5 to lay to make a path.Right on top of a patch of Crocosmia!The new shoots are just appearing.What can i tell ya.I wasn`t happy.The path is to go along a fence where i`ve got a Rhoderdendron,3 Hollyhock and at the end a Honeysuckle.Granted i can move the others but the Honesuckle is staying put!I think,though i hate to admit it, at the end of the day it`s a good idea as folks are walking over this part for easy access all the time but i wish he would just hurry up and do it so i can learn to live with it. :(

 

Like Fonzie, I have made my garden low maintenance. It is essentially gravel and beds of perennials. However I have found that to keep a garden in low maintenance mode - I have to work very hard.

 

i have spent the last 2 days making 7'sq rose beds, claiming lawn area to do the biz. I've got 4 to do, and have completed the 2nd today. While i was sitting near where i was working, having a cuppa this afternoon, in my t shirt, watching the gnats whirring, i was amazed how warm it felt, then i noticed that the rest of the garden looked very sad, all dead and not alot of colour. It was like a may day, with a garden that hadn't woken from winter. Still the forecast for wed looks like we're going back to wet and chilly, maybe even some snow up here on the hill. Still will get one more bed done tomorrow then no doubt wait til the next bout of drier weather.

 

Well my garden is a total mess at the moment as a result of the building work which we have been having done







If anyone is interested I am going to report progress on the restoration of our garden on my blog

 

We moved into this place last September. One hundred foot long back garden was a mess. There was a clematis montana....huge, it was....on close inspection we found a single-garage sized shed underneath it ( in a very delapidated state). There was also what looked like a big clump of ivy in the middle of a very neglected veg patch.......underneath that was over 300 house bricks!!!.....and we dont have a "lawn", just "mown grass".

So you see we have a large task ahead. Made a start and have hurdle-fenced off a 12ft by 18ft veg patch and installed a hen house and run with 5 bantams. It begins to look more like home now that I have fronted the veg patch with a cottage-garden type perrenial border, but we are now waiting a complete year to see what else appears in the rest of the garden....no more bricks/sheds I hope.

Misty

p.s. we used the bricks to build a small wall whilst trying to level up the veg patch. Waste not, want not!!!

 

Hey, my garden looks as good as anyones this morning, under its blanket of snow.....!!!

Misty

 

Well,he still hasn`t moved them.I`ve tried and failed,they are just too heavy. :(

 

and this is the rest. :rolleyes: i read somewhere that ash is good so i may just have a bonfire....

 

What a difference a day makes.......

24 little hours....

:eek: :D

[ 12. February 2007, 05:22 PM: Message edited by: Paladin ]

 

Christmas card material.