New Garden

I have a feeling we will be needing alot of advice.

Me, my husband and the cat moved into our 1918 house in March, all summer we have been trying to sort the garden out. The garden is 180 foot long and has 2 patio's one outside the conservatory (top one ) and one down 4 steps which is huge then we had a big fish pond which we have filled in and beyond that is what we call the mound. It's about 3 foot tall by about 15 foot wide (measurment probably wrong when hubby reads this) but its massive. Thought it was all soil, WRONG it has broken slabs in it made into a wall and tarmac etc, so we've dug some of it to nearly fill the pond still have about 3 quarters left to dig

We went to France on hols and a nice lady decided she wanted a closer look at the back end of our car and one of the out comes is that I have nerve damage in my back so now the garden is alot for me :gaagh:.

I'm sure though in the near future when I can get into the garden with my hubby we will use your advise. Hubby is going to put up double tandum garage top end of garden, from side of house to end of bottom patio

 

Post a picture of the plot and wait for the deluge of bright ideas.

There are lots of people here who will offer all sorts of advise - and show examples of what can be achieved.
Don't be phased. Take on what you can do - and take your time.

It's a big plot. Everything can't be done all at once.

Good luck with it.

 

I will if the hubby can find some piccy's when he gets up we have a design in mind, we're looking at a veg patch for veg and soft fruit but with working full time and permant nights I get worried it will be to much work.

The soil seems to grow weeds really well, our neighbough said its good soil and grows most things but I think it may need some revival as its been neglected for a while

 

You might consider some raised bed veg plots, no where near the back breaking work of a normal garden and not so much bending.

 

Here we go with the piccys

General site plan (its an old piccy now as the pond has gone )





The filled in pond

 

Kirst, what cracking project ahead of you. Don`t try doing it all at once. Do one bit at a time and get it right before moving on a step. Most importantly, enjoy the challenge.

 

good advice from dai, and lovely place

take your time and research .... you may have some ideas today, but after a few days you learn new things, see new things and your choices change

it's also good to do small sections at a time .... plants don't come cheap, so if you do the smaller sections, and fill them, it looks much better than planting a few plants all over the place

and shop wisely ... ebay is a great place to buy plants for cheap .... find a seller who has several of the plants you desire .... email him before bidding and request a good discount

your shipping costs work out cheaper as you buy several plants from the same supplier

 

We have just used ebay to buy 50 beech plants for a hedge between the patio and the grass area to make it more private, then at the bottom of the grass I would like a picket fence with a gate in it which will lead in the veg patch which will have soft fruit bushes round the fence. We already have 3 pear trees, a plum tree, an apple tree and a quince (we think it is).

We have quite a few plants we want to keep in the garden ( then ones along the fence in the picture where the ponds filled in) and more, and we have most of the hard landscaping. We wanted a hard path down the garden so we're having a crazy paved path because of the broken slabs we're digging up and I would like camamile grass in the gaps dont know if that would work

 

worked at a garden today (1st time I have worked there) ... was just a small 2hr job, but other work will follow in spring

the neighours have an amazing garden with a large pond, koi fish, loads of different bamboo, evergreen ferns etc

when I finished work, knocked on the neighbours door ... no answer ... wanted to ask if I could have a close look at the garden ...

only go back in spring, but will definately try again (I was trying to peep at their garden through a bamboo hedge)

 

Steady now, remember the playground incident:WINK1::runhills:

 

Ill take some new piccys in the morning so you can all see where we are at , ill try and stand in the same place so we can have a progress report

 

I thought I saw a bit of a wildflower meadow in the pics. Just beyond the now filled in pond. It looked really nice. In fact from the pics it looks like its going to be one very impressive garden in time.

 

See Kirst. Told Yer.
Give these guys half an idea of what you have and they go bananas.

Before you know it they'll have you developing the next entry into the Yellow Book.

Keep them informed of your progress and they will keep you enthused to carry on.

You've started now. Just carry on.

 

Thanks alot everyone we will keep you informed. I do sometimes feel its going nowhere and epic, but then sit down with a cuppa and realise when its done it will be ace