Gardens throughout the year

Hi Stoat

That is a stunning Flower and one of my favourites

Does it take a lot of upkeep and is it easy to grow at all?

Regards

Kathy and Dave

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The snakes head fritalaries have made it out!  sorry about the spelling!

 

 

Thanks Tweet. I don't often just sit but I am going to this year. When we moved in it was just the fences and earth as the builders left it. OH and I have done everything ourselves. I just wish I had a vege plot but I use growbags and a little plastic covered greenhouse for tomatoes.

Tweet said:

Your garden is looking beautiful there Coral!  I hope you get lots of enjoyment sitting in the gazebo bench and just admiring your hard work!  Obviously a labour of love :)

I'll second that! Just come in briefly as am in the middle of making the wildlife stack and just had to take a peek in case you'd posted some pics:-) Lovely. You'll be disappointed in mine if I ever get pics on, I'm a scruffy gardener I'm afraid:-(

Kezsmum

Nicki C said:

Hi Stoat

That is a stunning Flower and one of my favourites

Does it take a lot of upkeep and is it easy to grow at all?

Regards

Kathy and Dave

The snakes head fritalaries have made it out!  sorry about the spelling!

 

 

[/quote]It's easy, it's a bulb and the only thing you need to remember is it likes to keep moist, it's a water meadow plant, they flood in winter and are dampish in summer. They do well in bog gardens or even in grass:-)Note it's doing well in quite dense growth, the other plants shade the soil and help keep it moist but not too soggy.

 

Absolutely gorgeous gardens and a wonderful thread and guess what?I have just spotted it but had a wonderful time looking through and seeing how much TLC you have all put in.

I was a very keen gardener until 3 years ago but really had to downsize so have forgotten so much now.

Had so much work to do when we sold up and came here even though we wanted a simpler life for health reasons

ha ha and this is how we viewed part of the front garden in Feb 2008.

Despite this ,we loved the challenge and knew afterwards it would be a piece of cake.

That garden looks like it needed a bit of TLC Sheena. I bet it is looking lovely now though.

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That garden looks like it needed a bit of TLC Sheena. I bet it is looking lovely now though.

 

Snowed in at Christmas  ha ha.

 

 

Side( last pic i took) Only one feeder as others were getting cleaned.We move the feeding station every few months for hygeine reasons.

 

 

 

 

 

Roughly taken in the same areas a while ago now.You can see, easy to maintain which we have to do now a days ha ha .

Our plants are so young here,mostly evergreen and so different to my old garden which i really loved a lot and was very sad to leave as it took us so many years to get it the way we wanted..

 

 Part of our old back garden.

 

 Front old garden

 

 side

 

 side

 

 and more side

 

 

 

Miss it a lot.As  shown they are two totaly different gardens but i think it is so important to be happy and when you can't do it anymore you have got to move on ha ha and now less work is better. 

wow what a lovely thread!

 

and I just love all your 'treasure' sheena! these gardens put mine to shame but i have been busy out there today so i will post a few piccies when its looking better. i love the veggie beds too - nothing quite as good as home grown is there?

 

Izzy

I can see why you miss your old garden, Sheena, it was lovely and in your new one, all those critters won't need feeding, watering or taking for walkies:-))) Your beds look very pretty too. Did you put that stuff under the gravel to stop the weeds coming through? I suppose you must have done. It all looks so tidy -puts mine to shame, although in defence, we haven't had it long and anyway, I'm of the scruffy school of gardening:-( I seem to garden and garden until I drop (it doesn't take long) then I'm too tired to tidy up after myself. That has to be done in the next stint:-)

We made our wildlife stack this afternoon and are pleased with it. Mason bees are already checking it out:-)

Sheena both gardens are lovely and I'm a firm believer that you can do anything if you have a mind to and you have made your new garden home. It takes a while for stuff to get established, mine was started over 20 years ago from a bare rectangle of soil and builders rubble etc.

Look forward to seeing the wildlife stack Kezsmum. I am thinking it must be logs etc.Good to hear the bees are already checking it out. I will check Higgys blog too, thanks.