Beginning to look less like a jungle ...

I wish I had taken a picture before I started work on my mam's garden 3 weeks ago. Then I could give you a 'before and after'. Still, I'm quite pleased with the way things are gong now. Imagine this view with grass about 6" high, no distinction between lawn and flower beds, shrubs pouring out over the lawn, etc. etc.



The sun came out for the first time today at about 6.30pm this evening, and I just thought, "Yeah -that's worth a photograph."

 

:Dlooks great well done

 

This is the view 180 degrees from the first picture though ...



:o

 

Looks great! What a lovely garden - well worth all your hard work!

 

Looks an attractive well established garden but will need regular maitenance to keep it that way, there are many of us on GC that would love a garden like that.:thumb:

 

Well I've actually enjoyed re-discovering the old borders and re-making them. And yes, it is a lovely garden. My dad spent pretty much all of his retirement out here, and I know now quite how much work was involved in keeping it looking good.

But it is very rewarding to see the old lines re-emerge

 

I could just cry .... I would love a garden half that size.. Seriously though , well done

 

Sometimes when my back is aching, I would love one half that size too But I know I'm very lucky to have this garden - even if it is my mum's and not mine. It's been fun getting itunder control, and now the masses of weeds are gone from the flowerbeds, the other plants seem to be picking up. I guess they have less competition for the goodies in the soil - and in a lot of cases, they're seeing more of the sun too.

Actually, there's about 60 feet more beyond the fir trees behind the greenhouse. My dad used that section as the vegetable allotment. One year, when I was a kid, I counted up all the the different fruit and veg he was growing and it came to 41 different things; 50 if you include what he was growing in the greenhouse. I haven't even started on that bit yet - it's far more overgrown than the bit you can see in the photo above.

In fact, I'll go and take a photograph and post it here ...

 

Here's the entrance to the 'allotment'.



And this is the 'allotment' itself. Poor old dad must be spinning in his grave.

 

Are you going to be able to spend enough time to maintain it now?

Have you thought of asking someone close by if they would want to take on the allotment part? Only a thought - I don't know what pitfalls that would bring.

 

fmay - I was thinking exactly that. I'm returning to the US in the beginning of August, so I need to arrange something. What I was thinking is that I might be able to find someone who, in exchange for keeping on top of things in the main part of the garden, could use the wild bit to grow what they'd like. It might be only for a year (not sure yet), but that would be enough to grow some winter crops, maybe even get some stuff in for the autumn.

The important thing would be to get someone who my mum could get along with, and be happy to have popping in and out regularly.

 

Well done Louis you have certainly worked wonders on the garden and I take my hat off to you as the boys say ( We are not worthy )
G.man:D

 

Thanks - but I should make it clear, this garden was my dad's creation. I'm just doing a restoration job on it. I'm having a lot of fun now. Seeing the plants we've kept start to thrive now that they're not competing with masses of weeds.