New for 2007 !!!!

Today is a New Day and I was wondering what everyones plans were for their garden in 2007.

What plants have you bought, going to buy, sown, grown or going to grow in 2007.

I am ripping out my lawn and replacing with gravel. I also hope to treat all of my wooden decking and screens. I don't have any new plants to go in yet, I struggle to find space for the ones I have :D This year is going to be an 'enjoy the garden' year hopefully.

 

.... but your lawn less than a year old.....!!!!


Well, this year is the first summer in our "new" garden.... I shall post pics soon. After a whole summer of a building site last year, I have so many plans, loads of plants to go in and a truck load of seeds on their way to me as we speak....

The Front is new too. Our chappie is just finishing off the new driveway today, so I have new borders there, and no mud-pool of a lawn!! YAY!!!

This year too is going to be "enjoy the garden" year, so look out for those rain clouds!!!! :D
... I have also got a new greenhouse, and am putting a seat in there so I can escape with my cuppa when its cold and wet....

One of the boders (approx 8m x 1.5m) is going to be my flower garden. It is my intention to have a vase of flowers in the house every day of the year..... and on the other side of the garden is the tropical jungle, hiding the trampoline (and kids!!) from view, with a pond full of frogs (hopefully) and bog garden in between....

 

I am going to take a leaf out of your book BM - I want to go up. I think the ideal garden is one in which you are totally enclosed. ie you see garden wherever you look. This is what the big houses did with their herbaceous borders, and is the logic behind garden rooms. Disney World rides also depend on this effect; their magic would be spoiled if the ride went through the car park and eating area. And that is what makes the pictures of your garden look so special BM. So up at the edges, and cover/hide all buldings.

 

We started completely from scratch with our garden when we moved into our house last summer.The garden was horrendously overgrown after the house was empty for ages before we bought it. It's taken us since last summer to clear it and lay new paths, grow a lawn, renovate the greenhouse and create borders for planting.I've planted some key plants and now just have to fill the gaps with more gorgeous plants but as we are on a very tight budget I'm going to attempt to grow as much as I can from seed.At the bottom is a very shady area surrounded by trees so I am going to attempt to create a little natural looking woodland garden there.I hope that come the summer we can relax in the garden and enjoy it now that it is taking shape, unlike last year when we couldn't even walk the length of it because it was so overgrown!!

 

I'm digging a huge bed in the middle of the croquet lawn...well I say croquet lawn but the dandelions and daisies and mole-hills in the grass made for an interesting game. So we'll have to play round the new bed now. :D Got loads of rooted shrub cuttings and over-wintered perennials to put in when the ground dries out a bit.

 

Cheers PeterS, that has given me a much needed smile.

I noticed at Thorpe Park last year, loads of fast growing Paulownia (Foxglove Tree) around the rides to enclose the experience. Plenty of bananas too :D

I am hoping for many more tropical pictures to share again this year.

Keep at it mel, the satisfaction at the end is so worthwhile

HBee, I had a go at the lawn but I was always sceptical about if it would be successful. I am just too enclosed (which is a good thing ) but not good for growing grass. Parts are fine, but under the standard bean tree it is just to squidgy all the time. It doesn't see enough sun to dry it out. There is an under ground brook at the end of our garden which doesn't help :rolleyes: I am fighting nature a bit in this respect so gravel seems the logical choice. If actual fact it will open up the garden more being one colour and texture, less broken up.

Sounds like it is going to look really good Blackthorn

 

It will take a lot to enclose our garden as well as you have BM, we are on the edge of Bodmin Moor where the trees grow sidey-ways. Never mind, I can look at yours and dream. Love Paulownias and may try one in the the new bed which is in a bit of a sheltered spot.

 

Well, I'm going to start making the evening shade seating area at the bottom of my garden. Then finish and add to, my planting :rolleyes: My 'big' stuff, is still really small at the moment, so am filling with lots of perennials this year.
But mainly this year, I want to gain more knowledge and confidence. I want trees.....but they scare me :eek:

 

I am going to dig a veg patch in front of the summerhouse cos it s the only place to put it. I have a fancy to make some stepping stones to surround it so I can sit and watch it grow :D

 

Having done the vast majority of the hard landscaping last year, I'm concentrating more on the more permanent planting this year. The cottage garden (my bit anyway) will have two more veg patches, and the rest will be full to the gunnels (spelling??) with cottage garden perennials and annuals, so crammed together they hold each other up! That's the idea, anyway :D

The pond needs planting up, and all the borders need annuals that have self seeded removed (mostly, unless I like the effect :rolleyes: )and gradually replaced with perennials of all sorts of heights.

Then there's the wldlife area, the boggy bit between the pond and the wildlife area, and the 2 rockeries - and.......... not to mention all the hangng baskets, pouches, containers, etc, that we'll be re-doing, according to what worked best last year, and what new stuff we fancy. This year we're going for masses of colour!! :D

 

Well I have definately caught something off you BM, I am going bananas and developing the bit of land outside the lean too into a tropical garden - yest I finaly managed to talk Mr Waco round!

I have lots of gardens within gardens in my patch, so like Peter says it will have to be totaly enclosed - two reasons 1) Tropics don't really suit Edwardian villas 2) I want it to be totaly unexpected.

 

I just want to get rid of the concrete path that runs down the middle of my garden and block pave it. The OH even measured it all up in Sept and worked out how many bricks we will need. Think he needs a gentle reminder, other wise I will have to start on my own - that usually works.

 

You have your ways, I see, Jlottie! :rolleyes: :D

 

Well last september i laid a new lawn on the front with a logged edge boder. I intend this summer to plant either gazania or petunias in the borders and buzy lizzies in pots. I have brought some dahlia, rudbeckias, african marigolds and chrysanthemum seeds. Planted liles in large containers