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.

You install a boundary that it doesn't cross. It's fab.

I'm lying in my hammock about to start rereading an old favourite, I may be sometime.

We moved here in November, garden very very neglected.

I dug a pond. I love it. Watch it far too much.

I inherited an electric blue hydrangea. I’m not normally a fan of hydrangeas, but this one is absolutely stunning. Not subtle.... but stunning.

Also magnolia - sat with its big fat fluffy buds for months all winter before bursting into flower in very early spring.

This is my third summer in this garden. Last summer was a lot of work creating space for a greenhouse and raised beds. This year I am loving seeing my children (5yo and 2yo) enjoying strawberries and peas and tomatoes and raspberries fresh off the plants, pulling up carrots, asking to plant more seeds, filling the bird feeder, learning to be gentle with seedlings.
I lived somewhere much more ‘countryside’ at their age, and I’m so glad I can still let them experience growing their own food even in the urban sprawl of London.

I love the feeling of a cold stone patio under my feet in the summer, late evening when I'm out watering.

I love the smell of the garden early morning when things are opening, the fragrance is most potent then.

I love climbing roses giving shade and fragrance.

I love my sun sail casting welcoming shadows in the full sun.

I love the huge Dalia pom-poms bobbing in front of the red acer and the spires of blue from the delphiniums, it's such a pretty contrast.

And lastly I love the climbing rose I found in my hedge.

Planted by my predecessor and only discovered when next door put a fence up along their side of my tall hedge. I realised the rose hadn't died, and on chopping back I discovered it was ours. I fed it with a wheelbarrow of rotten manure and the following year it was magnificent. I counted 200 + blooms on it. All it needed was food.

I love my garden.

Oh I would love to see a photo of your courtyard, I too have a small yard (it's L shaped and honestly tiny) that I am transforming into a lovely place to sit in, it's mostly shaded but so far we have hanging fairy lights, decking tiles and various plants/wall climbers with a table and chairs, it's lovely on these summer nights but still needs some work.

I have just attempted to make dill pickles with dill and cucumber I grew myself.

That makes me happy. 🙂🌻

What a lovely thread, it's like pottering around each other's gardens😀

I have just moved house and have a garden with not one single plant in it. It is a completely blank canvas and I'm having a wonderful time planning my perfect garden. I've already refenced, got a hedgehog friendly gravel board put in, removed two imposing conifers, painted the fence and had an outside tap fitted. So looking forward to seeing the changes over the coming months and hopefully a large water butt for my birthday!

@redfairy greenhouse….just saying.