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Here's a few more pictures of my back garden.
The established Rhododendrons that I inherited are much happier now that the trees which were smothering them have been removed. I've planted a white one to keep them company, along with a variety of herbaceous stuff. The Pieris (foreground of this picture) also seems to appreciate the extra light.
Down the bottom of the garden, I've not done much yet apart from taking out some weedy apples that were totally overshadowed by the big apple tree, but I have managed to keep on top of the nettles and brambles. Since I took the picture this morning, I got on a ladder and removed a few of the lower branches of the big tree. I want to be able to walk around easily and let enough light in to grow some shade-loving plants among the Spanish bluebells. At the moment it's only bluebells and creeping buttercups. I also want to dig a wildlife pond in the sunniest part (to the right as we look here).
Back towards the house, the East-facing bed by the hedge is a bit tidier than it was last year. The hedge itself has also recovered well from the savaging it received last spring, it's just starting to come into leaf now.
The semicircular bed closest to the house is starting to look colourful, as the wallflowers come into flower to complement the daffodils and Polyanthus:
The front garden is looking tidy too. The rose hedge established well and the snowdrops emerged to give us some blooms early in the year.We got someone to move a gatepost so I could widen the drive last year, but we haven't yet found anyone to re-pave the drive. I've thrown some spare slabs down so I could park on it, leaving grass in between. It's serviceable but scruffy. I dug a new bed along the edge of the drive and planted herbaceous things that were on hand. I'll probably widen it at some point when I've decided what to grow there.
Finally, the pots of spring flowers I planted up in the autumn look nice enough to distract the eye from our scruffy front porch!
That's it for now. I'll try and remember this thread in the summer, but no promises!
The established Rhododendrons that I inherited are much happier now that the trees which were smothering them have been removed. I've planted a white one to keep them company, along with a variety of herbaceous stuff. The Pieris (foreground of this picture) also seems to appreciate the extra light.
Down the bottom of the garden, I've not done much yet apart from taking out some weedy apples that were totally overshadowed by the big apple tree, but I have managed to keep on top of the nettles and brambles. Since I took the picture this morning, I got on a ladder and removed a few of the lower branches of the big tree. I want to be able to walk around easily and let enough light in to grow some shade-loving plants among the Spanish bluebells. At the moment it's only bluebells and creeping buttercups. I also want to dig a wildlife pond in the sunniest part (to the right as we look here).
Back towards the house, the East-facing bed by the hedge is a bit tidier than it was last year. The hedge itself has also recovered well from the savaging it received last spring, it's just starting to come into leaf now.
The semicircular bed closest to the house is starting to look colourful, as the wallflowers come into flower to complement the daffodils and Polyanthus:
The front garden is looking tidy too. The rose hedge established well and the snowdrops emerged to give us some blooms early in the year.We got someone to move a gatepost so I could widen the drive last year, but we haven't yet found anyone to re-pave the drive. I've thrown some spare slabs down so I could park on it, leaving grass in between. It's serviceable but scruffy. I dug a new bed along the edge of the drive and planted herbaceous things that were on hand. I'll probably widen it at some point when I've decided what to grow there.
Finally, the pots of spring flowers I planted up in the autumn look nice enough to distract the eye from our scruffy front porch!
That's it for now. I'll try and remember this thread in the summer, but no promises!
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