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Roll on summer – to be Isolated in the sunshine would be much easier
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The blossom in your garden looks so pretty Beth 😁
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Most of my garden is flowering shrubs or perennials…. more blooms every year – lilac forsythia pieris wygelia peonies and camellias keep blooming
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If you add taller plants that flower it will attract more birds too. Some shrubs like eunominous have variegated leaves cream edged green or yellow and they don’t shed their leaves. They have small white flowers abd can be grown against a wall or fence – always pick plants for their leaves as they only bloom for about six weeks but evergreens give colour in winter too.
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I love the idea of flowering shrubs as I have inherited a garden I know nothing about, full of flowers and hard work. I am thinking along the line of replacing gradually with shrubs as I hope they will make my life easier hopefully. Thank you for some ideas may need to pick your brains at a later date! Your garden looks to be my ideal if only I could achieve something like that I would be perfectly happy. Betsy xx
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Hello Beth. Lots of seed catalogues out there with some good suggestions in them and often money off. Growing your own is dead easy and much cheaper. Also a glimpse of the glorious summer ahead in the photographs. We planted lots of bulbs last year, including alliums which are incredibly diverse and great as cut flowers. The RHS website is great for advice and tips – I joined and have free access to their gardens (once they open again) and some good ideas for planting schemes to see. I’ve just bought a few gardening books off eBay – again, saving a fortune and basic gardening planting advice and design does not change much over time, so you don’t need to buy the latest versions. Finally, look at other gardens around where you live to see what grows well in your locality and soil. Enjoy!
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Btw – I am sure you know all of this but I have been learning on the job since becoming (semi) retired. Pics are some of my recent endeavours up cycling timber from skips and a few new railway sleepers.
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Love the photos. Given me some ideas. We have a huge patio, that looks like a large concrete car park. Previous owner laid it.
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Just laid railway sleepers onto the patio (on their side two high are 40 cm so deep enough for growing veg or flowers). Prised up full slabs inside and cut rest with a stonecutter which I bought at Screwfix. Just filled with soil/compost mix today. You can also buy potato pots and bags to grow more veg.
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That is something nice to look forward too i love easter x
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What lovely photos, full of the promise of sunny days to come. I live in the middle of town and only have a small little courtyard, I really do miss a garden, I will bear your advice in mind for the flowering shrubs, I love a variegated leaf too, for when I do get a garden again!
