What type of garden have you got?

[seeformiles]

Here's a pic of mine on May Day (hope this link works!)

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q429/seeformiles/100_0667.jpg

 

[marty21]

Here's a pic of mine on May Day (hope this link works!)

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q429/seeformiles/100_0667.jpg

that's lovely!!

 

[seeformiles]

that's lovely!!

Why thank you!

 

[Griff]

A very small courtyard garden. Nice thing is, it's South facing and we enjoy if far more than the last house with a far bigger lawned garden.

Does anybody actually enjoy the chore of mowing the lawn?

 

[Pingu]

A very small courtyard garden. Nice thing is, it's South facing and we enjoy if far more than the last house with a far bigger lawned garden.

Does anybody actually enjoy the chore of mowing the lawn?

up until today... yes (have ride on mower and its quite fun)

however the main drive belt snapped this morning and it cant be repaired until a week tuesday. (belt is in a twat of a place to reach and I cant find anywhere where I can order a part from)

so its normal mower for me this weekend which is a ballache.


on the plus side I am going to be getting creative with the chainsaw at the weekend too. I might slip and accidentially take down one of the conifers I hate (but mrs pingu doesnt)

then its time to tackle jungle corner which I am not looking forward to as there are laods of brambles and weird stinging stuff in tehre. but it needs doing.

 

[Bang to Rights]

I've got a broad balcony and several in-house shelf/cabinets with rows upon rows of bonsai trees and potensai.
Does that qualify as a garden?

 

[blossie33]

Wow, some of you have some amazing gardens! Lucky you!

We have 3 small balconies in the apartment and a communal open roof which is great at night. But I dont think anybody has a garden in Barcelona.

I would very happily settle for that especially with living in Barcelona - nice!

My small 'garden' is just internal with a group of plants by the window. I couldn't live without any plants.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've got a broad balcony and several in-house shelf/cabinets with rows upon rows of bonsai trees and potensai.
Does that qualify as a garden?

In my book, yes.

 

[berniedicters]

We back onto a hill, so the garden starts about 2.5m up (with a little bank from where it starts to the first level) from the little concrete bit at the back of the house, which has borders full of catshit and some container plants, all automatically irrigated. The first garden level is about half patio (with a barbeque) and the rest lawn, before going up another step (about .75m) to the main bit with a lawn to the right of the path and a half-paved area to the left (which I am removing to extend the raspberry bushes on the unpaved bit).

Then there's another level up to the next bit. This all used to be full of brambles and weeds, but I've cleared that, and have the right hand bit as a vegetable patch, while the left bit has a little bit of grass, 3 compost heaps, 2 enormous water butts (mostly unnecessary in soggy Wales). At the end of the garden is an enormous block-built shed, split into two units. They were fairly derelict (doors, windows missing) when I arrived, I've replaced the door and missing windows on one side - the other side is still full of junk, and the door's rotted to bits and fallen off. At the back of that side, there is, weirdly, an almost-full-height roller blind which - if it wasn't rusted solid - would give access to a track that runs alongside the field our garden backs onto. This is where I plan the beer I'll brew in there to be shipped out onto the fleet of drays for distribution around the vicinity .

Not sure if I have a sufficiently illustrative photo anywhere. I shall look.

Now I've written this I've come over all motivated to tidy it up, sort out borders at the edges of the lawns, and improve the whole thing.

 

[berniedicters]

then its time to tackle jungle corner which I am not looking forward to as there are laods of brambles and weird stinging stuff in tehre. but it needs doing.

Hire a brushcutter and pretend to be Indiana Jones. It's fun! Mind you, if there's lots of brambles, BUY a brushcutter because you need to savage them regularly (though bunching mine up into a binliner - using gloves - and pouring glyphosphate over them did the trick for me).

 

[Structaural]

We've got a little garden, we recently moved into it, it's a lot more overgrown than these old shots from the previous tennant - the trellies's have grapes all over them now and we've a table and chairs, bbq and Wendy/Mushroomhouse, but this is essentially it. You don't get much space in Amsterdam. I love my shed though.

I dream of a garden like Moomoo's, that's really lovely. One day.

 

[weepiper]

photobucket working again so here's ours!

In spring:

In winter:

Looking from the middle of the garden:

 

[Funky_monks]

Hire a brushcutter and pretend to be Indiana Jones. It's fun! Mind you, if there's lots of brambles, BUY a brushcutter because you need to savage them regularly (though bunching mine up into a binliner - using gloves - and pouring glyphosphate over them did the trick for me).

If its brambles, dig em up.

 

[fizzerbird]

(oops - not the view from my backdoor - but nice all the same )

A fox in among the foxgloves

Was it there by chance? Though in the second pic it looks like it's giving you a knowing smile

 

[fizzerbird]

taken from the end of the picture before last looking up to the top of the garden again

I want to live in your garden!

 

[Librarian]

A fox in among the foxgloves

Was it there by chance? Though in the second pic it looks like it's giving you a knowing smile

The second picture was taken about 4 years later and is a descendant of the first one. The first one was amazing she would feed from my hand. I'd never do that again though as it makes them too trusting of humans. Also my arm nearly atrophied sitting immobile for about 30 minutes while she finally decided whether I (and the bit of liver in my hand) could be trusted.

 

[Chz]

Other. We have a fair-sized balcony covered in plants.

 

[mrsfran]

I've just started trying to grow carrots and radishes in a pot on my windowsill

 

[Sadken]

My garden is finally looking shit hot now Mrs K's brother has done the landscaping on it. Will stick pictures up when I can be arsed to buy yet another digital camera to replace yet another one I recently broke.

 

[Sadken]

Yet again.

 

[geminisnake]

I too have Pingu grounds envy I would love to have room for decent size trees.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2713711853_82f2568f01_b.jpg

Link coz it needs a bit of size to see it. Taken from a plane last year in August. Ours is the wildlife friendly garden(far right) It's a bit tidier now.
More photos soon, once I upload and sort them.

 

[geminisnake]

This is the tidier bits, done over a few months.

RHS from the front door

LHS from the front door

Round the side

and if someone can tell me what this is please, I only know it as lambs lugs(and there's lots of different types of that) The flower is cerise when it isn't past it!