What does your garden look like?

[charliecat]

Mine is very used with skipping ropes and hulahoops scattered over the grass. The borders are full of 1/2 blooming flowers and others I need to deadhead/sort out...looks like it needs a couple of hours work on it...but has this look permanently
Whats your like?

Mine looks fab atm

Fully in bloom, the beds and pots are bursting with flowers. It is only 20 x 30 ft so easy to maintain!

i am presently thrilled with my blooming shurbs and myplanting plan has worked as one fades another blooms. off back into to it ....

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Back garden is very standard at the moment. We moved here last September and not really done much. It isn't particualrly large either. Patio dorrs on garden room lead out onto decking, then we have grass. Back and left side is walled. Right side is a wooden fence, shared with next door.

Side area is planted up with shrubs, smallish trees and the types of plants that spread and give ground cover. Just starting to bloom some of them, although I think a few others may have had it. None of this is down to us though - was all there, part of the plot when we moved in.

Bindweed is thriving on the whole. Grass abundant. Fruit trees, raspberries and currants look after themselves. Scattering of toys/scooters/abandoned socks.

Quite big, very patchy grass but getting slowley better.
6ft fence at the back, fence on the left side (not high enough), wire fence on the right side.

No plants cos I kill them.

Lots and lots of toys all over the grass but when Argos eventually deliver my shed it will be tidy...yeah right.

We have a patio covering half the garden, the other half is grass.
We have huge b-b-q and lovely wood table & chairs, on the patio.
We have huge shed filled with fridge, freezer, beer & wine fridge, microwave, lounger & radio.

Two large light green bushes, in big blue pots - you can tell I'm not a gardener, can't you ?
Fresias in beds are doing nicely, as are roses.

Have 8 hanging baskets, which almost died, but are now in their element.

Have wooden bench and paddling pool - which I was in, sipping my dry white wine, half an hour ago.

Oh the joys of life.

TooTicky, do you live in the playhouse in the bottom of our garden because you've just described our garden?!

By the way our raspberries are looking very good -I think we're on for a bumper crop -how about you?

a real mishmesh of things: patio doors open onto decking, then grass with broaders at both sides, bamboo and climbing roses hide the pergola, beyond that is two ponds and behind that is a small greenhouse. sounds large, but its long and narrow.

i do love it especially when the climbing roses are in bloom - it looks fantastic ... had dinner on our wedding day on the pergola with lights and the stars ...

BettySpaghetti, I forgot to mention we have a playhouse at the bottom of the garden too! I think we would have a bumper crop of raspberries if ds2 didn't love them so much that he eats them when there's only a hint of pinkness. Last year he crunched up green blackberries and was none the worse for it!

like the product of my imagination that it is.

Mine is a driveway for 2 cars with a few potted plants scattered around!

Beautiful - herbaceous border in full bloom and veg patch going crazy. I love our garden. We work hard in it as we grow as much veg as poss. It's better than our house. The best bit is that the kids love it to, to play in and helping out. I am so proud of it I might even post some photos and show it off.

mine looks nice, but some things have drooped in the heat and need hosing

at CD..."Fully in bloom, the beds and pots are bursting with flowers. It is only 20 x 30 ft so easy to maintain!". Our garden is huge, steep, with 6 mature trees and the weirdest shape you could imagine. Due to the trees nothing will grow, apart from the weeds. We can quite easily spend 2 -3 hrs tidying, weeding etc and it still looks a mess. It really is the bane of my life. I would love to be able to step out of the back door into a beautiful garden and sit with a glass of wine and relax but it's just vile out there. .

kitchen door leads on to a raised patio which homes the wooden table and chairs and the chimnea.

Stright in front of patio but a step down is a small grassed area which is fenced round -houses pot platns - dd princess castle toys etc.

Left hand side there was a slope leading down but we leveled it off and it now houses the bbq.

Then at the very bottom of the garden there a drive and a carport.

If I take a picture of my garden, would you proper gardeners be able to help me with a planting scheme, the 'as one fades the others bloom' sounds beautiful. As we are not very avid gardeners, I patioed over the lot and put 2 3ft deep flowerbeds with little brick walls round them. I have lots of plants and was trying for an all year round look but lots of my plants have started to flower & they are bloody yellow. So it's boring...... Need help.

veg patch on one side of garden ,finally thriving.
new turf we laid ,with lovely yellow patches where dog's weed,in middle
bushes down other side
footballs,goal,spades and other garish bits of plastic dotted around

Ok so it's the size of a postage stamp BUT after 15 years of living in flats and moving in only lasy year I am very chuffed with my garden. Flower beds are blooming despite early slug onslaught & the best efforts of highly destructive 16 month old dd's attempts at "gardening", climbing & rambling roses are all out.

I never knew how therapeutic a wee garden could be, every time I look at it I feel happy .

Pity it's sucked money out of my bank account....

Conservatory opens up onto a sloping patio where the wooded table and chairs are, then there is the decking and dravel area which holds the woodedn steamers (lounge chair things), then we have a 150 foot lawned area which has a path on the right leading upto the shed, and mature shrubs all up the left hand side.
There is a circle, gravel garden in the middle planted with maples and other 'shrubs'.

At the side of the house there is another gravelled area filled with pots of palms, weeping willows and tree ferns.

Right at the bottom of the garden there is a sloping slate garden wfilled with alpines (and lots of bind weed - bah) and some dwarf fruit trees.

I don't do flower beds or weeding, just shrubs which can look after themselves.

UCM - I'd LOVE an "as one fades the other blooms" type garden too! Had to start from scratch in the flower beds here so a lot of bedding plants this year but have had some sucess with:
Spring - bulbs. The anenomes were best, really pretty & lasted ages so will plant more this autumn
Then primroses & polyanthus. Spring flowering clematis, saxifrage, aubretia
May/June - planted pansies for intstant colour
July - sweet peas, lavender. Roses are out. Honeysuckle about to come out.
Later - hebes and have put in Asters for autumn colour.

What are your hot tips, Countess Dracula (and anyone else with that sort of garden)?

We have a trad. lawned front garden with borders on 2 1/2 side (will be 3 when I finish digging it out with low mixed planting. At the other side of the drive is a rockery. Down the side of the house which is just a narrow strip between us and next door and so v. shady I have a gravel area planted with ferns, hostas and a climbing hydrangea. The back garden has a T-shaped patio with a pergola over the patio doors. At the other side is the kid's small playhouse fenced off area for bins and a sand pit. There are two deep borders at each side of the T bit and in the central bit a step up onto the lawn which is unfortunately sloping - meaning that the footballs are forever in the plants. At the top is a border with 3 cherry trees underplanted with various shrubs.

Overall the garden is very green but would like more colour going on.

Mine is work in progress. Large, bare, stony, area of dirt where greenhouse was recently removed from. Children love digging in it for some reason, and I predict a riot when it's grassed over next week.

Flower beds are full of just thin dirt and are in the process of being dug out and replanted. So far have dug up 15 empty half-bottles of vodka. Neighbour tells me that when the last incumbents of my house were here they found 26 buried bottles, so there's doubtless more to come.

Path is still in existence but shortly due to be moved. Washing line has gone as one end was tied up to the greenhouse.

Patio at end of garden is covered with lifted paving stones and heaps of dirt from the in-progress flower beds. To be taken to tip when FIL can come with his trailer.

4 bags of compost are sitting on the tiny lawn, and the rest is taken up with a slide, crocodile rocker, swingball and toddler trampoline. Newly created bench is on the other side under overhanging ivy, which is actually a very nice spot.

Patio by back doors is relatively OK as it was swept yesterday, but the green bin is smelling delightfully of rotting veg and the kitchen drain was blocked when I left this morning so a bit niffy too.

Hopefully it will be a proper garden by the end of the month, but the children quite like it as it is as they get to dig in the dirt.

We have a large garden that is currantly covered in paving slabs. Not a patch of lawn in site...

BUT soon will have a lovely designed garden. My DH is a landscape architect/urban designer, so if he can't produce me a great garden no-once can...

Our last house was fab, took 2 years to do (DH designs for a living so took time to actually do the manual work).. then we moved to this house..

Miss my veggie patch. and lawn. We will be moving again in a year or so, so the garden won't be that great, but anything better than paving slabs.... (although DD thinks they are great for her toys)...

Ours is basically an extension of DS bedroom with toys everywhere..we have a patio area with some plants in pots. Tomato plants in grobag on patio. The grass is looking a bit patchy and the sides are all barked so that DS slide swing etc are on there. So bit like a playground with grass than a garden but it works for us for now.