Trampoline and Garden Peek

After getting our hands on a used trampoline, I guess this is as good a time as any to show you our garden.

The trampoline itself was from a family, were the only daughter didn't want it anymore, so she traded it for a book from her favorite fantasy series (with witches and unicorns). The parents were glad to get some more free space in the garden, so it was a win-win.

First a view from the top of our roof into the general garden. The old sitting area from the previous owners was used for a sand pit (with the blue tarp). It is shadowed by kiwi and passion fruit plants in the summer. The old rose bushes that grew there were mostly dead due to years of negligence and rot.


When we got the house, the whole garden was basically rhododendron bushes growing man-high EVERYWHERE. It was almost completely devoid of wildlife both above and below ground. So I planted mostly edibles with bee-friendly flowers.

On the left we decided to dig the trampoline into the the ground (at least partly) to save it from the frequent high winds coming though on a regular basis.

Had to move quite a few plants (RIP blueberry number 7, you will be missed ), and even my wife was hard at work digging, while I leisurely was taking pictures.



It was quite the chore to move that much ground with lots of roots and stumps from the aforementioned rhododendron. Seems there still was a lot left that didn't rot.

I will add a few more pictures (including the final product), but since I am on my mobile phone at the moment, it seems uploading is a bit of a gamble.

 

I used the soil to fill up our raised flower beds in front of the house first. After two years, the soil level there sank a lot, as the branches and cuttings I used as a base degraded.

After that, I started to spread it out evenly. Then our neighbours took a few wheelbarrows for their own garden.

And lastly we made a small mound against our garage wall for future use.

 

As promised, a few more pictures.
I just cant seem to figure out why some of them cant be inserted inside the post.

But one, I really like is this one:



The original idea was to dig it in further, but due to ground water levels, this was the deepest we dared to go. On the upside, it gives us the chance to retrieve anything the little one decides to throw down there

 

Nice garden, I love the colours near your path! One plant looks like alliums, but what are the pinks and the burgundy?

Nick

 

@Nikolaos
Sadly i dont know all of the plants I have in the garden. Some were presents, others already lived there when we bought the house. But the pink one is an "Azalea", the one directly at the border is a "Armeria maritima". You were right on the money though with the Alliums.
We also have Phlox, Lavender, Thyme, Salvia nemorosa and quite a few others outside of the pictures.

 

Your garden looks great, very well designed and created.

It was a good idea to dig the trampoline in. It looks better and when the time comes your little one no longer wants it, your pond is nearly done

One of the digging photos reminded me of this one by Erik Johansson

 

Thanks for the idea, but I think I'll pass when it comes to ponds. We have a large drainage ditch and a water reservoir 20 meters away, and our demand for mosquitoes is already met a few times over.

Additionally half of our porch once was a giant pond before the previous owner realised the same thing