Before and After piccys please. Need inspiration!

[charliecat]

Garden was a tip when we moved in, gardens still a tip 5 months later. Please inspire me with your before andafter piccys!

Sorry charliecat, no pics. Just do a bit of the garden at a time, prioritize what is a hazard or do first what you would get most benefit from. Thae only way to an instant show garden is a landscape gardener or a TV makeover. I did my garden from nothing over several years and its still changing but thats cos I enjoy it.

If you want to CAT me I'll send you pics of mine

No piccies here either but I think it depends on how much of a tip.

Our front garden needed lots of work and did it bit by bit, using lots of pebbles to cut down on maintenance in the future. However, our back garden was a huge great big mess so I took it all out and had new turf laid. It is still like that until I have any further inspiration but at least its not getting more and more overgrown in the meantime.

We started slowly but grinded to a halt as it was going too slow Greenbean..or we are lazy
I gutted my front garden from a dogpoorun into a pretty array of flowers and grass but the back is lumpy lawn, lots of it, bald patches and needs BIG work doen to it.
How did you turf yours MMH? What did you do with the grass/garden that was there?
In the meantime I have weedkillered the bit of grass I need out of the way so we can flatten it for a bark area for the swing.
Badger...CAT coming your way!

We hired a skip and got all the blokes we knew to come round and dig it all up, levelled it off, bought the turf in big rolls (garden centre delivered it) and layed it with advice from various people/internet/books.

Was very nervous actually as to whether or not it would be OK, but a year on and its still alive and growing well. In fact we are very pleased with it to say it wasnt done by professionals and on the cheap.