WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JUNE 2018

Love that Lavender Logan

 

Looking out my dirty old window...

 

Beautiful display Tetters

 

Hi BigC to the forum mate and also sharing your garden...absolutely stunning mate and like the Bank's brewery

 

Hahaha "Last Orders Please".....Cheers...there's no better way to enjoy a garden than being sat in the sunshine with a nice glass of red taking in all natures creations.
Thanks for your kind comments.

 

Your welcome mate and credit where it's due it looks always a pleasure I think to look at members gardens besides your own.

I noticed you replied to Logan...so a message goes direct to a member put @ first then start to type the name and a list will drop down..click on the members name and when you press reply after you've commented it turns blue ...I wasn't sure if you new or not

 

Thanks @Gail_68 .
I'm only a novice gardener but I like to learn and I'm ok with hand and power tools so I like to make things for the garden as well as planting...I do need more colour though...Flowers.
I love Japanese gardens
Just something I built from a little concrete

 

Thanks @BigC

 

@BigC your garden looks great and the lawn is so green. You've done a lot of work on it.

 

Japanese gardens do look nice I will admitt..such a carming look about them and a nice colourful Acer would look lovely in your garden...you'll like @Doghouse Riley garden he'll add some pic's for you to view

 

Thanks @Logan appreciated...
I absolutely love Acers @Gail_68 I have a good few now...here is my Beni Maiko (with the Geisha) and a few others for by..

 

Very nice they're stunning plants and the colours really catch your eye but with DHR's garden it's like a Japanese style in some area's he's done that's why I think you may like it and hopefully when he comes on line he'll add pic's for you

 

Hahaha funny you should mention it @Gail_68 ..I know DHR by a different name lol...His garden is ACE!

 

Hi BigC

I'm impressed with your lantern.

Concrete is great for making Japanese lamps.

When I built my koi pool thirty years ago. I wanted a Japanese lantern like this one, at Katsura Villa in Japan, I'd seen in a book.



But those in garden centres at the time looked really naff.

So I made myself a 4ft one out of fine mix concrete with an outer skin of dyed sand and cement to make it look more like stone.






Then I made another.



They both have low voltage lamps in them controlled by switches in our lounge.



Then I made a 6ft pagoda. (I cheated, it has wooden balcony rails)



This has a lamp behind it, but again controlled by the switches in the lounge



Finally I built our tea-house.



Again these lights are controlled from the lounge. But it also has a power supply and has ceiling spotlights. I keep a beer fridge in there, (it's on a stand on castors, so can be rolled out onto the verandah), plus a TV and my two vinyl jukeboxes. My wife says they are too big for our small semi.






These are recent photos so they've all worn well.

Edit

Sorry BigC, posts crossed. So you've probably seen all the above before.

 

Absolutely Stunning......I only wish I had the space and an agreeable spouse....nor to mention the wallet..hahahaha...Its a credit to you buddy....I would love a Koi pond one day I've visited so so many as I'm an aquarist at heart mainly breeding Killifish and am a member (committe and otherwise around the UK) so many breeders also have ponds...maybe one day eh! lol
Here is one I visited only last week