THE BEGINNING..

Iv'e been gardening for about 12 years, and today iv'e been looking through my photos,so i thought id post some from the beginning of my garden obsession, Mistakes and all..
If anyone has any pics of there first garden, or planting or design horrors from when you first started out, id love to see them.. Dee. Well heres mine, there Pics of pics so not that great, Here go,s.

My first "greenhouse" How I loved that Leanto my pride and joy, grew alsorts in there..

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My First garden furniture, Every night i packed it up and brought it in the house, and every morning it went back outside :eek:

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Then my hub made me this table and we bought the chairs, I treated it with 3coats of Yacht varnish and thought i could leave it out all winter

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ooh and I thought the only plants you could buy were busylizzies hehe...

And My absoloute biggest gardening Mistake Ever The dreaded Leylandii..

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Took them out last year,(phew) Any New Gardeners reading this thread, DO NOT Plant Leylandii..





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[ 20. April 2008, 10:10 PM: Message edited by: youngdaisydee ]

 

We have inherited a Leylandii hedge at the front of the house. I took it right down when we moved in and keep it at a reasonable height but long term I think it will be going. Once I summon up the nerve to tackle its chunky root system

 

Dee you certainly have done an awful lot to your plot and but I think one can only learn by one's own mistakes some things work well for others while the same thing is soo not good for yourself! :eek:

Regarding the Leylandii in such a small space not a great idea although brilliant for nosey neighbours!
Some of my old neighbours (in our last house) actually used step ladders to peek over our hedge needless to say after I saw that the hedge was allowed to grow upto 6ft funny how now it doesn't bother me being so overlooked now but then again none that overlook out gardens bother with their own plots quite a shame really as your lovely plot shows what one can achieve with good planning and lots of hard work...oh and maybe a bottle or two of the good stuff! :D Hel.xxx.

 

ydd, thanks for showing those pics. what a way you've come since then, well done.

cheers