Gardens and beloved plants: thoughts, pictures, experiences, hopes for?

Very beautiful pictures! Your garden is gorgeous.   I love the wellie boots as plant pots-might have to borrow that idea for my own garden.

What are you hoping to grow in your garden next? Next year I'd love to try some tomatoes in mine. 

Uhane said:

How about everybody else? Pictures? thoughts, experiences, hopes for?

Well I'd love to grow some strawberries that don't get devoured by the garden slugs and snails but let's not go there! 

I'd love a proper vegetable garden, complete with a beautiful flower border surrounding it. I can just remember my mums at our old house and it was so pretty so if I could get mine to that-or something like it that would just be perfect. 

I'll take some pictures tomorrow-though it's nowhere near as nice as yours is! Parts of mine are nice but other parts are weedy and overgrown. I'm trying to get it tidy and nice-though I do have some sweet looking plants just randomly growing-I'll take some pictures tomorrow, you might know what the plants are. 

Love this thread already thanks for making it. ️

Weedy and overgrown or rewilded naure havens? Well that what I tell myself anyway. My gardens having a bit of a redesign, the pond is being rebuilt and the orchard/wild flower bit redone and I got new compost containers. I've not done any veg this year as I'm wanting to rework my veg plot and either have raised beds or go for forest gardening style, I have hazels that I planted as a hedge and I'd like to put the soft fruits such as raspberries and currants in front of them and then work downwards in size with veg. We get lots of strong and salty winds and a lot of stuff just won't grow., but soft fruit does really well, beans really badly, I've seen leaves torn off the plants by the wind.

I do love hydrangeas and roses, I have quite a few roses, a new one has started flowering, it's a patio rose, that I bought, for £1:50 in a sale, I put it in a nice pot with some nice soil and it's happy. I like quite old fashioned flowers, snap dragons, wall flowers etc. I also love my spring bulbs and primroses, I plant purple heuchra interspersed with yellow winter pansies followed by primroses, they really show each other off well. Another thing I seem to have a aquired a bit of a collection of are hebe's, they do really well here and seem to take anything the weather throws at them, all the polinators love them too and as they all seem to flower at different times of the year they're good nectar sources for early and late polinators.

There one bed that I'm seriously going to ovehaul this year, it's full of rubble from when the house was rebuilt some years before we moved here. Last year I thought I'd found archeology, but it was a load of bricks that I think might have formed part of a door arch? It's got very poor thin soil so I will either have to bring in a load of new stuff, or plant for poor soil, with loads of lavenders, rosemary and thyme?

Your garden sounds lovely, especially like the flowers that have a strong scent. I have snapdragons now and wallflowers earlier that re seeded in a small bed with roses, so this year have been able to leave it. 

Sounds a good idea to plant things that like poor soil as I guess they might survive any hot weather if we get any.

It is lovely to see the fruits of your effort and fresh food from the garden always tastes so much better.

Out the front we have some tomatoes sheltering against a wall, there's nothing quite a warm tomato straight from the plant.

Out the front we have some tomatoes sheltering against a wall, there's nothing quite a warm tomato straight from the plant.