Taking over care of a Garden

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You've certainly joined the right forum for good advice and guidance to get you sorted, and have the garden looking lovely and continuing to do you and your grandfather proud.

It would be a big help if you could let us all know where in the world you are (don't worry, we don't want your postal address, but it helps to know if you are in SE England or Wales or even Greece as that all makes a difference); photos of how the garden looks at the moment, and even what plants you have growing or starting to grow, and if you have photos of the garden in full bloom all the better (we love photos on here).

If you want an ID on a specific plant, there is an excellent ID section where one of the resident experts will be more than willing to help.

Beside the gardening advice, you will also hopefully enjoy the banter (and downright nonsense sometimes) that goes on around here - it is the friendliest (and most supportive) forum that I have ever had the pleasure to join.

 

I reckon I spy tulips in a couple of those planters, so they will come back every year - no reason why you couldn't transplant them out somewhere, but I would wait until after they had died back so that you are only moving the bulbs.

The last picture (just called photo.jpg) I am pretty sure that I can see the remains of a pelargonium/geranium - this won't have survived the winter. And I reckon that most of the other planters have annuals in them which have died back over the winter.

The easiest way with these is to empty them out (do you have a composter or compost heap?), give the pots a good clean, and start again with whatever you fancy.

It really depends whether you want annual plants (ones that die at the end of the summer), or hardy perennials which will come back again and again? The other thing you might want to think about is whether you want to grow new plants from seed or to buy them as plugs?

Stick with us here, and keep the photos coming - I am sure that you will get plenty of inspiration and help