Garage Doors Finally Painted
All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
Tag: the_front
Work starts on garage door
You get used to looking at the same thing every day and it is only when you look…
Pulling out grass
A long long term project all this, to tart up the side at the front. It started a…
More Flowers
It seems amazing sometimes that from a bare garden in the middle of winter all this is hiding…
Flowers flowers flowers
The whole garden is full of daisies, big ones, small ones, ones yet to appear!
Berries in the front garden
Hidden behind the planks of wood (a future project… one day) are the wild strawberries and the tayberry…
Ladybirds in the Front Garden
We sowed meadow and wild flower seed in the front garden a number of years ago and ever…
Wild Flowers
The wild flowers in the front garden grass have all come out once again and made the front…
Green Shoots on Gooseberries
The two gooseberry bushes in the front garden have not had a good life so far, they seem…
Finaly we have Raspberries
For years I have wanted raspberries but never got round to sorting out ground to put them in.…
Finally we have raspberries
For years I have wanted raspberries but never got round to sorting out ground to put them in. …
Pruning the Apple Tree
On the local Freecycle cafe list a post from Leslie appeared offering his services to not just prune…
Pruning the Apple Tree
On the local Freecycle cafe list a post from Leslie appeared offering his services to not just prune…
Snowdrops
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
Snowdrops
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
Rain rain rain
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
Rain Rain Rain…
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
It is Finally Tree O’ Clock
A bit late, BBC Tree O’ Clock was on the 5th of December 2009 (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/) but for…
Chamomile After Transplanting
I took cuttings of plants from another person’s garden (with their permission I may add) the other month. …
Rain Damage
One minute a bush of blue looking all proud, and then the rain came! Over night it pounded…
September 2009
A bit of a tidy up and preparations for autumn and winter. It seems all a bit early,…
Flowers in September
It is noticeable that the evenings are darker and the mornings are colder, but we have the sunflowers…
Not Too Tall – Not Too Big
The sunflowers in the front garden are giving some colour now that other plants are starting to die…
Along Comes the Wind
The poles seem to sturdy when you put them in, and yet within not too long the wind…
Chocolate Cosmos
I ordered these via a special offer in the BBC Gardeners World magazine quite a while ago. Last…
Summer Time Flowers
These look just so great and is what I have tried to make the garden be all about,…
Sweet Potatoes Slowly Grow
Having never grown Sweet Potatoes before it has been quite exciting with the seeds we got from the…
July 2009
The bad weather has taken its toll a bit, although now that has stopped and we are back…
Beans and Snails
Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. …
Poppies
An old packet of “self seeing meadow flowers” it said. So I thought I either throw the old…
White Fuschia
This fuschia is looking fantastic at the moment with its many white flowers against the dark fence and…
Beans have a slow start
You can hardly see them, but there are a number of runner bean plants slowly growing here. I…
Sunflowers planted outside
# It has all been very much hit and miss with sunflowers this year. To start with, non…
Bean Poles Erected!
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much…
End of May is Good
By the end of May the front garden is always looking good but still full of promise for…
The Wild Bit
After a couple of weeks of non-cutting the patch of grass in the front and it has come…
May 2009
May has been a month of mixed weather. It started off like summer time but soon we were…
Dandelions Dandelions
I’ve kept this photo quite large, I like how the little ant is climbing up too. Just one…
Wild Strawberry Flowers
These Wild Strawberries are fantastic! I bought four plants the other year, two survived (not helped by the…
Fuschia comes back for a new year
More signs that a new year is just beginning, spring is here. Last year I picked up a…
Blueberry Buds
Last year we had two blueberries from this bush. It was its first year so I was not…
Fingers Cross for Gooseberries
We had little success with the two gooseberry bushes last year, the leaves seemed to get eaten over…
Apple Tree coming into Leaf
I noticed one or two buds starting to show some leaf which means in a couple of days…
Tayberry comes back to life for 2009
A Woolworths reject from last year. It did show signs of life last year just before some creature…
Sunflowers in the front still looking good
Early October and the sunflowers in the front are still looking good. Just as you think it has…
Snapshot October 08
rain rain rain rain rain….. sunflowers still hanging on. The extra grass seed that we planted is starting…
Wigwams down
It must be autumn, not only are the mornings so dark and depressing, but after last weekend of…
Autumn Grass Seed
We bought some top soil, the first time ever I had bought it! Normaly I have managed to…
w17 – Sunflowers at the front
It’s windy and rainy…. which means the sunflowers at the front are a little bit sideways. But still,…
August 2008
The time has nearly come to do something about the grass in the front. It has come a…