What do you love in or about a garden?

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I've got a big water filled trough you can properly dunk a watering can in. Every time I use it - washing hands, dunking dried out pots, rinsing containers, etc I love it a bit more.

And I have a proper potting shed, for pots and tools, it's a__ce.

Don't hang back, I want to hear what you love. Proper smug description with no fear of stealth boast accusations from me.

Ok, I’ll definitely play.

After what feels like endless years of waiting, my shit tip of a garden has been done…new patio, turf and dug out borders. All my choices and design. I BLOODY love it. Love it.

The joy of pouring over plant catalogues and choosing all the beautiful flowers I want to try to grow is already improving my life immeasurably.

Self retracting hosepipe makes me very happy every time I use it

Pergolas with thick vines for shade. We have 2. One is covered with grapes, jasmine and a passion flower.

Ponds for wildlife. We have frogs, newts, dragonflies!

A garden big enough to need a wheelbarrow and a 50m hose. I have half an acre to play around with and it's bliss. Veggie garden? Sure. Soft fruit patch? That'll work. Massive sprawling composting area? Sure, why not! 30-odd chickens because they keep hatching more of themselves? Not a problem. Need to get away from everyone for a while for some peace and quiet? Absolutely

Trees. We have about 40 decades-old trees and it feels like an enormous privilege.

A big old neglected hedgerow along one side that rustles constantly with wildlife. I love knowing they're all there, doing whatever it is they do.

I would quite like a self-retracting hosepipe though, I didn't know they were a thing.

We have a tiny garden (it’s not actually a garden - just a typical back yard/Victorian terrace; I call it the courtyard ) but I love it. I’m growing lettuces, tomatoes, a selection of herbs. Flowers in baskets on the walls and in pots. It’s a wonderful little space and it makes me very happy.

The sheer amount of wildlife. I have a relatively untidy lot of 2.25 acres - mostly grazed by ponies but with buddleias everywhere festooned with butterflies, a great long bramble hedge complete with nightingale in spring/ early summer, bees in my chimney, newts and frogs in our pond, so many different birds including nuthatches, tree creepers, all manner of tits, it goes on.
Lots of people would think my garden is scraggy and unkempt but I love it and so does nature.

I have a lovely potting bench we made from pallets and I love it. I also just got an outdoor socket fitted which means no more wires through the window.

Plant-wise I am loving my single courgette plant this year, after falling out with them in my old garden as they used to go mouldy, this year I thought I would do just one and it has been so productive!

My border with wild bushes (and weeds!). Looks rustic and wild and I don’t need to weed it because it fits in

I love my bee houses - we have 4 now; started with one. We get both mason bees & leaf cutter bees & it's fascinating watching them work.
DH pointed out that when we eventually move we can take the houses with us to our new place - so we're essentially bee keepers just without the honey!

I love different textures, so many different shades of green, scents and especially herbs. Something that’s a balance between looked after and harking to a natural landscape

The day when I’ve scraped the last tiny bit of compost from the bottom of the heap and can start refilling it with great armfuls of half rotted stuff from the one next to it, until I get down to proper compost. Close contact with earth, the only time I get to see my spaghetti like masses of tiger worms, and suddenly lots more space to add weeds. That really is a red letter day.

But apart from that, the everchanging nature of the garden, every day a new flower opens, plants appear that I haven’t planted, birds, bees, butterflies, the tree boring wasps in a rotten tree trunk I’ve left for them, newts, damsel flies, newly emerged frogs among the strawberries…

I love my summerhouse an unseemly amount

Sounds like heaven.

That's wonderful.

Be careful because unclean bee houses can host parasites. You need to scrub and change out the tubes. Lots of info online.

I quite like my little cobbled paths which I put in myself though I wish I'd made them wider. I love my roses.

I desperately need shade (my house is new build) and I'm going to investigate pergolas.

My foxgloves. Ridiculous in my tiny walled garden but they self seed and the Bees absolutely love them.

They are a delight. Also: Welsh poppies and bluebells: those little beggars self seed/spread everywhere. I like seeing where they'll pop up next.

I have a tiny garden that was all concrete and gravel. When that all got dug up there were no worms in the soil. None at all. Now, there are loads. I love my tiny pond. Size of a baby bath but has loads of frogs and damsel flies. I love the clover in the grass that i planted. I love the caterpillars on the nasturtiums, the bees, the beetles. All the little creatures that weren’t there 6 years ago. I love the magpies that come and peck grubs out the grass.

First off I love a border full of bees.

Greenhouse is going up today - a lovely wooden one as it can be seen from the house.

I've got plumber booked to put in a tap for a retractable hose.

I invested in a large acer sango kaku to put up against a white wall so that the red stems will stand out - it's beautiful in summer too.

2 years in to first proper garden after only having pots and back yards. I'm still loving it.

I've planted about 8 trees and I love watching them grow and change in the seasons.

Had waterlogged crappy front lawn replaced with 2 patios of paving and huge borders that I'm filling with tall grasses to catch the evening light, perennials and catmint and allium seedheads that glow at sunset. There are spring bulbs crammed into every bit of border.

I sit in the sun in the front garden in the morning before work and listen to the bees humming away and watching the birds.

The wildlife!

I have a small suburban courtyard style garden at the back with lots of pots and fruit trees and flowering shrubs which is surrounded by other much bigger gardens with hedges and trees and flowers l, some have weeds and unkempt and overgrown gardens. As a result my garden is used as a highway for foxes and badgers and cats, lots of different birds and bees and butterflies. All about their daily business, passing through 24 hours a day.

wonderful.

We're very rural. I like to go to the very furthest spot in our garden and look back at our home nestled between enormous trees and I feel so deeply grateful to call it home - well us and a noisy, swirling crowd of hungry housemartins.

When we first moved here, I painted a couple of garden walls, ones that face the house, barbie pink. The contrast to the verdant greens is really pleasing on the eye and on a grey day in winter, the pop of colour gives me such a lift. Nobody can see the colour from the road either. Its like our little playful secret.

Shamelessly place marking

The wildlife. Our garden is looking very sad at the moment in the heat - leaves falling from my tulip tree, sweet peas wilting and mildewed, in spite of all the watering. But last night I went and stood out there at 10.30 when we had a brief shower and I saw a hedgehog and a bat - we are near the centre of a town, so that makes me very happy.