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I thought it my be interesting to have a thread showing our gardens and the way they change throughout the year. Here's mine looking a bit of a mess at the moment -
I di leave most of it uncut over winter to give the insects more places to spend the winter - well thats my excuse - I was probably just being lazy.
Best wishes
Stoat
I'm not bald. I've just got ingrowing hair!
Great idea for a thread.
I always take photos of my garden throughout the year.When I look back I am sometimes surprised at how quickly some things have grown (and others not!).
My garden in winter always looks a bit of a mess and I think it will never look nice in summer.
As we seem to be having more dry summers like last year I am putting in more shrubs as these,once established,seem to be able to withstand dryer conditions.I am also not much of a one for watering so I like plants that can look after themselves a bit!
I usually have a project each year,this year I am removing the loose gravel between some of my paving slabs and am going to replace with pebbles embedded in cement.The birds are always chucking the gravel everywhere and when mixed with fallen leaves can get in a bit of a mess!
Last year I built a small retaining wall down one side of the garden (only 2 bricks high) and am planning on topping it with glass pebbles later on (will provide pics when done!).
I have several shrubs in pots waiting to be planted but cannot yet as the positions are at present taken up with perrenials that can't be moved until next month.I have done a bit of tidying up but cannot do a lot till next month when I expect it will all need doing at once!!
Rachel
It's not always easy to hug a hedgehog.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't.
This is my garden taken after the heavy snow before Christmas. Never seen so much snow for years. Even so, you can still see my Geraniums in flower in the Conservatory. Amazingly, they are still flowering now.
There are 9000 species of bird on earth. Let's keep it that way.
A B said: Even so, you can still see my Geraniums in flower in the Conservatory.
Er, sorry Budgie, I am about to be a really, really, really boring pedant, but those 'geraniums' are pelargoniums, geraniums are the cranesbill geraniums that are hardy and grow outdoors and are so called because their seedheads resemble cranesbills. Sorry again but it is one of my 'things'. For what it's worth, mine are still flowering now too - good doers, er pelargoniums. Lovely conservatory - must be ace for watching birds over breakfast.
Lol. So sorry Kezsmum. I suppose it's a bit like calling a Herring Gull a Seagull, but isn't a Pelargonium still a member of the Geranium family? Anyway I am no expert in these matters, just like the flowers. I used to have a Lemon Geranium, which as it say's on the tin, smelled of lovely lemons. Was that a Pelargonium?
Hi all
You can find out more about Geraniums and pelargoniums here:- http://thepags.org.uk/index.html
Fantastic looking garden, Birdie Wild, all those lovely trees and shrubs for the birds, and for you:-)
i have my own posts on my garden afraid i have tn photos this year cut alot of staff down last year because of the early winter still got alot of it laying around
once it gets really cold i leave it be as i dont know what it might be protecting
but know its time to get moveing a few things i wont to move, but never sure where to put them as some grow large and shade everthing out the main problem with ponds is that they dont like alot of shade
have far to many leaves in my ponds takes time to remove them without removeing water snails bugs etc
i just love all the gardens written and shown here and would just love to get my hands on them to change few things
i always wonted a garden on a slope as theres so much you can do to them haveing a rather flat garden that ,s too wet in winter and dry in sumer
the friedly bid watcher
A B said:I used to have a Lemon Geranium, which as it say's on the tin, smelled of lovely lemons. Was that a Pelargonium?
Yes it was Budgie- they come in a huge variety of 'flavours' or scents but they're all pelargoniums - those that flog plants know that they're usually misnamed and go with it - which of course, perpetuates the mistake, Anne Swinthinbank can get quite heated on the subject. And no, they're not related. Our native geraniums are the sweet little herb Robert that spreads ALL OVER THEPLACE, which has a strange scent and meadow cranesbill geranium that has a mauvy/pinky bloom, forms quite a chunky, ankle high plant that you often see on verges. The garden varieties are tough little blighters, come in quite a variety of leaf and flower colours and size, make good ground cover, bed edgers and when they've finished flowering can be hacked back more or less to the ground and will come back and do it all again -excellent doers. There are some that like shade, others that like sun and everything in between. They can be quite small and neat or lax and floppy. There's an alpine form that is very neat and tidy.
I bet that's more than you ever wanted to know about geraniums, lol, good plants though-as are pelargoniums.
A good thread. I love the way a garden changes through the year.
It all begins with the first spring bulbs.
Build it and they will come.
Some very nice gardens on here. Put ours to shame a bit!
I bought the raised bed for the wild flower garden today from B and Q. I'm sure it said thew were £13 on the stand and looked in the catalogue where it said they were £18 but they only charged me a fiver! Bargain of the day! I just need to work out the best way to get hold of some soil to fill it with now.
Best wishes and good gardening.