2010 to 2012...we've been busy

Ok,here it goes..
bought our house in June 2012.
This ist what it looked like behind the fence:
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Not aaaaaalll bad, but....
so, as soon as we had the keys to the house in one hand we took spade and grubber in the other.
By the end of gardening season 2010 we had renovated most of the house and cleaned up the garden.
I spent the veeeeery long, veeeeeeery cold and snowy winter
looking at gardening magazines and catalogues, reading blogs and websites, thinking up what our garden should look like "one day" and learning about what plant likes which spot and neighbor.
So a plan slowly took shape...in my head, then on paper and on screen.
By the time snow melted and little dabs of green started showing
I was reeady!!!!!!!

 

Looks great. I like all the curvy lines. Just the sort of garden you could wander around.

 

March 2011 I broke my ankle...ouch and darned
But...gardening's not for the wimpy, so I hobbeled about with cast and crutches.
This should be the first project of the season:


the cabin! the cabin! The guy inspecting the porch is my lifelong project
It took one sunny workaholic weekend and this is what came of it:


to paint the porch we would have had to take up every single whats-it-called? and paint it one by one.
Not!!!! I got some matching camping carpet and aluminium rail. Saved time and marriage, easy to keep clean and looks neat

By July '11, this is what it looked like:


No more bavarian chique

 

On we go...
The street front needed change. This is what we moved in to in June 2010:


I decided against straight lines and so experimented with the garden hose in order to find the right "curvature"
This is what I came up with:

Ok...not too bad, but I want a second sitting place at the SW-Corner in order to be able to overlook the whole garden.
So...
we shot this pavillion at an auctionhouse and put it up right there in May of 2011:


nice, but....
maybe a bit more privacy would be nice so we visited the auction house again and found a grown hedge which hubby and a friend dug out on a very wet saturday and replanted it at our house the same day.
Came evening, neither of the guys were able to raise a fork to their lips because their arms felt as if filled with led and the fell asleep very early that evening.
This was the result of a very hard day of gardening:


and the way things looked in August of 2011

More next time...I get tired just looking at it ;-)

 

I love it.....you've done a great job, and the cabin looks so cozy!!

 

What a delightful transformation. You have good imagination and are able to project your ideas very well. Looks a lovely spot. Location, location, location.
So precious,
Jenny namaste

 

to Penny,Jenny and the likers :-) I'll show you how the project went on...
After the hedge was set luna walked up and down down and up and decided that because of the hedge there was now not enough room for perennials in front of the hedge.
Soooooo hubby was grumpy and luna had to pick up and reset the stone border on her own.
Which she did
That was the last project on THAT side of the garden for 2011.
Another winter of reading, planing, waiting passed and spring found me with many new projects on my mind.
March and April was spent shopping, preparing the soil and planting.
I'm done..now thrive...please?

And it did
Nowadays this is what I look at:

 

The before pics are nice and the after pics just make it even nicer!! Great job you have done and well worth all the hard work!!

 

Love how you have painted the summer house, I want to do that colour scheme to ours.
Looks a HUGE plot you have there !

 

Looks great.....what is that house thingy thats in the last picture?

 

Insect house ?

 

there ought to be one more pic...the "what-I-look-at-nowadays-picture"
was in a hurry this morning so probably didn't post it right.
So here it is:


Thank you for your kind comments!!
@ Penny:
the house thingy is an insect hotel
filled with different materials...it makes useful critters feel at home



@ evil :
Its not small, but not huge I would say
Our lot has 780 square meters all together...whats that in feet??
The backyard has about 22x18 meters and ends with the hedge behind the pavillion.
I decided on this color for the summer house as I did want it to look friendly but step back behind the plants in the garden.
The paint is scandinavian,extremely durable and really great to work with. It's called...........I don't recall just now, but I can find out if you'd like to know

 

Ah...I just discovered how to reply to a posting
Yep...it's an insect house

 

Thats so cool, i can honestly say that i havent seen one before