What are your gardening plans for 2020?

[GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat]

It's a bit quiet round these parts so I thought I'd start looking forward to spring/summer

My garden is finally looking mature hooray.
Early spring will be spent tying in and general tidying/selective pruning however I'm having a little daydream about the fun things I can achieve once the weather starts to warm up 😂

I'm going to put a wooden arch halfway down the lawn and cut a horizontal border in to change the view from the house. I have a few unused metal obelisks in the shed so I'm envisaging evergreen shrubs either side with something interesting climbing up the obelisks and the arch

Also a wooden 2 seater bench for the patio and a hutch/cat house for the cat

I'm forever buying plants (usually reduced) no doubt that will continue.

I won a fancy water butt with attached planters - I'm aiming to install it properly and plant it up.

Over to you

I'm going to dig up the raspberry canes in the front garden which are getting a bit unruly and move them over to my allotment. I'm going to replace them with a bed of alpines in lots of different colours and some big stones.

In the back garden, I quite fancy a metal arch halfway down the fern bed which I can look through from the bench where I drink my tea in the summer. I would use it to hang a sea glass mobile my mother made for me.

This year I'm going to get some raised beds in the back garden , the sun hits every spot at some point in the day , so have lots of choice of where to put them . One will be for compost . I've already got my crop of onions coming up that I planted in October . I've never done this before and was really inspired by my dad who's helping me sort out what to grow.
I'd like spinach, kale, carrots, potatoes, lettuce.

Am quite excited !

Great thread!

Garden goals for 2020....

I want a bench that also has a roof/pergola over it and sides. I think it's called an arbour (google images say so) with roses climbing through it ❤️

More evergreen shrubs

I'd love a line of rhododendron somewhere

I know I'll buy more David Austin roses, echinacea, Hydrangea

A hedgehog house

I'll be back when I think of more

I hope to finally plant my trees into the ground!
Maybe dig out the area we will eventually have a conservatory, but just have it as a patio for now.
Replace the fence on one side and lower the fence on the other (neighbours but they agree and have a nice thick hedge the other side).
Might even be able to start work on our front fenced off garden area. Currently its all open and a drive, but I need an area where the front door is that I can have secure so the dog doesn't go wandering off. She likes to hang out with me when I am gardening, and currently I have to have her on a lead.

I had a terrible veg gardening year last year and a great one the year before. I'm still formulating my plans but this is a great thread. Thank you.

Having finally got rid of a very large trampoline and a climbing frame, we now have a very large spare piece of grassed garden.

DH wants to put a man cave/summer house there. Nice but expensive.

I am leaning towards pond/naturalised area.

It is overhung by trees from next door and faces North East so very shady..... We may just plant some more trees.

We also need to dig up a 20ft cherry which has never grown properly, probably due to an immense poplar which was removed last year, thank god. It was about 150ft tall and dying and it's roots came into out garden. We will replant something else, and do a better job of the planting this time.

Patio needs relaying, but horrible job, and can't quite face it.

First thing will be a bit of tree planting - quite liking the look of a scarlett willow.

We moved last year and spent the summer clearing a very overgrown garden, so hoping this year we get to do the fun stuff - putting things back that aren't either conifers or thorny!

And a veg patch. Just need to rein my ideas in a little - don't think there is quite the room for all the veg we'd love to grow!

Well this autumn I have reshaped the front lawn, made larger borders and added lots of plants (was previously mainly roses and bare soil in the borders), so I'm looking forward to seeing how that grows and making any adjustments needed, filling gaps etc. There are also a couple of overgrown shrubs that I'll need to have a go at in the spring.

The back garden is a different matter, it needs a major overhaul and I don't know where to start. Priority will probably be getting a tree surgeon to do something with the massive leyllandii which border 2 sides and overhang/shade us massively. Will try to persuade 1 neighbour to get rid of his as it is truly out of control, but if not we may need to cut it back to the border and end up with a bald side 😬bit nervous about that as there will be no going back. Other neighbour who has about 6 huge leyllandii trees at the back of our garden is not interested, so we'll just trim those this year and see how that goes. Don't want our main view to be bare trunks, so we'll be less brutal there.

I've just had a simple pergola put on against the garage wall in the garden..I'm going to put my superfairy rose over the pergola and a purple wisteria on the wall. Hoping it will look very romantic. I've also got a potted Christmas tree that I'm going to plant into the front lawn. I was going to convert the front garden to paving for parking but van't see that being done in the foreseeable so will make an attractive greenspace instead.

Had the whole garden ripped out in autumn and landscaped, new patio. It's only titchy at 45m2 but I now have a pretty blank canvas.

Bought myself a book called "brilliant and wild, a garden from scratch in a year" and I've started plotting a mostly perennial garden in the beds round the small lawn. Lots of pots to buy and fill, and garden furniture too.

Excited as that garden was almost unusable before and now I can see the potential.

Last year was my first year with a garden so we just grew a few annuals and added one or two perennials as we will be having building work at some point in the next 2 years.

My plans are probably smaller than yours and more beginner focused but I want a fence covered in sweet peas and going to try and grow from seed, want to plant a climber in the shade at the front and also try and plant up the front garden a bit. Its tricky as long and narrow, north facing, half drive and has 2 big established trees so not sure what I can do. Also going to aim for a few containers. Toying with growing some veg but probably wont have time.

2020 is the year that we sort this out. The plan is to buy a 16ft x 10ft log cabin which will be to the left as you look down to the back fence so that it blocks out some of the neighbouring houses. Also going to grow some tall defensive plants along back fence, install a vegetable garden and have borders all around. The gravelled area to the right will be the bbq area and there will be seating dotted around with statues etc dotted around. Already made a start with the purchases just need the good weather to make a start

Love these ideas!

Sorry for the delay in returning, I was unexpectedly ill for most of December then Christmas happened

My patio looks horrendous at the moment - a fetching shade of green and grey. Not looking forward to pressure washing it when the temperature improves

Nevertheless I've planted 4 big pots of bulbs I bought in B&Q on Christmas Eve for 50p. I'm rarely organised enough to plant spring bulbs and I decided mild January was better late than never. I'm not keen on putting them in the ground as I forget where they are (markers disappear). I'm always digging and moving stuff and my poor bulbs rarely survive.

Well this will be our first spring in this house, we moved in last June. Have removed an inappropriately placed free, rotten fence, and several conifers.
I've tracked down some huge tubs and have ordered honeysuckle, clematis Montana and a climbing hydrangea to grow against a garage wall alongside ivy.
I've planted crocus, daffs, anenomes and snowdrops in the front and back garden and pots.
Also have ordered a bunch of seeds - black eyed Susan, marjoram, hyssop, marigold, lobelia, nasturtium ... have a conservatory for the first time which I'm planning to use as a nursery

I will replace my bright pink and purple fuschia with one that has paler pink or white or purple colours. Looking for a very fast growing hardy bush type, that is not Delta's Sarah or Hawkshead as I have those in other parts of the garden.

I will invest in summer flowering perennials as I have notices gaps in what is flowering in some parts of the garden. Definitely buying lots of cosmos, echinacea and verbena bonariensis and am hoping to give growing them from seed a go. But that will be a challenge as I have no greenhouse and few window sills!

Also buying lots of white and paler pink nerine bulbs.

I've planted some new (to me) bulbs and am looking forward to seeing what comes up - some unusual anenomes and camassia.

I also need to keep a more watchful eye on our newish cherry tree as it has been completely eaten by blackfly for two years running.

What lovely ideas!

This is the first year I'll have a garden (since I moved out of my childhood home), so I have a few small things I want to do in the neglected garden here, while I (re)learn the ropes

1. Set up a compost heap
2. Grow a fruit, veg and herb (there is already a massive rosemary bush, some rhubarb and very straggly brambles)
3. Dedicate an area to wildlife/letting nature do its own thing (inspiration here: We Are The Ark )
4. Do a bird count (and feed the birds)
5. Put in a miniature pond for wildlife

I think that is probably enough to get started with

Oh dear, that link is wrong. Correct link here:
We Are The Ark

This is our third year in our too-big-to-manage garden and I’m really hoping I get to relax, potter and enjoy it - rather than spending the summer feeling like a frontier pioneer trying to stake my claim on the wilderness. I’m also resolved to spend less money on things like plants, mulch and compost and get more into making these myself.

I’ve divided it into 3 sections.

The far end will be a nature garden, which I’m hoping will mostly look after itself. It was previously a bramble and conifer graveyard, but in autumn we finally finished clearing it and sowed meadow seed. I’ve been out there this morning picking up a billion oak leaves, which I’m worried will have swept away the seed so I’ve ordered more (woodland meadow this time, as I can’t be clearing that many leaves every year). I need to finish planting plant bare root mixed native hedging along the sides.

The middle is the playground (rope swing, trampoline). I’m happy with the planting I did last year and am really excited to see the rhododendrons I revived finally flower again. We made a wildlife pond in autumn, I’m also excited to plant that up.

Nearest the house I have a square lawn with three perennial borders which I will tinker with. I’ve been over wintering penstemon cuttings, looking forward to these going in and providing more colour and fluff. I also want to move the viburnum eve price I originally planted at the end into these borders to give them more structure and make this bit feel more enclosed.

Most exciting, I’m hoping to knock down the conservatory and have a lovely slate patio laid instead. Here I will lie at the end of every hazy summer’s day working in the garden, gin in hand, and admire my handy work while saving for a pergola and watching my rose cuttings bloom.

How is everyone getting in with their 2020 goals? On Sunday I managed to get out and finish planting the bare root mixed native hedging. You can barely see it, it's just twigs, I need a lot of faith! I also moved the viburnum eve price nearer the house so I can see them from my window. The flowers give a lovely pop of white this time of year. Now I need a nice calm March day to reseed they meadow patch and fix the lawn by the pond. I feel my heart lift with every little sign that spring is coming.

Van Meuwan have an offer on herbs at the moment so I am thinking of ordering them. Trouble is the post and package is the same as the herbs. I am also looking at some Dahlias in autumnal shades for the rear of the garden.

I'm supposed to be doing massive pruning so a man can come and put up a new fence for me. But what with snow, rain, wind, and my own prior commitments I haven't even made a start.

I’ve got a very dark, damp corner which is in permanently shade due to a huge evergreen tree. I’ve tried planting a variety of plants but nothing seems to survive.

I want to decide what to do with it! I am thinking either a rockery with mosses, grasses etc or a boggy wildlife pond.

Any ideas welcome!

Bog plants, a bug hotel and Japanese anemones. They grow in any conditions.

Not a wildlife pond. There will be a steady drop of leaves all year from the evergreen, the pond will silt up. and it will be a headache de-silting it.

W hen you say damp, do you mean the soil is damp, or just that it always feels damp in there? Often the soil under a tree is actually dry (because the tree's taking all the water), in which case things like cyclamen and periwinkle can do well.

I would like to plant a witch hazel tree in our garden. Plant more bulbs. Use the compost from my new hotbin composter. Sort out our fencing and decking and make a space for a meditation platform!