The neglected garden.

Yep. The title of this post sums my garden up at the moment. Neglected. There's far too many weeds that need pulling, dead plants and leaves that need tidying. Not to mention hedges that need a good haircut. Oh so much to do and so little time. I need a big kick up the backside to get it done. Gardener wanted. Apply within. 

On the plant side of things it's looking nice. I'm now past that awkward stage between spring flowers dying off and summer flowers blooming. The poppies we had last year are making a return and it won't be too much longer until they are in full bloom.

My potted plants are going quite well. I've had to put slug and snail pellets down to stop those critters from munching on my plants. It's working alright so far. Everything is growing nicely and I can't wait until they bloom so I can see what they are (stupid me didn't write down what was where!) 

We should be getting a new bench soon so I can't wait. I'm hoping in will make the wasted space by my backdoor looking more like this. I can't wait to make it look pretty!

Let me know if you have any blog posts about your garden. I need all the inspiration I can get right now!

Another little update! #projectgarden

Wow! Things have got rather busy in the garden! It's down to the combination of sunny days and torrential rain. Everything thing is beginning to bloom and it's difficult to keep up with it all. Gardening is definitely something you have to keep on top of if not you'll turn your back for a second and everything's gone crazy. I'm planning some time this weekend hopefully. Just to give everything a tidy up. 

A couple of weeks ago I planted seeds and few of the have started to grow through the soil. I stupidly didn't write what was growing in the pot but hey it will be a lovely surprise come summertime! 

I also noticed the other day that the poppies from last year have started to come through again. I had such a lovely shade of purple poppy last year so I'm hoping for the same again.

The peonies have started to come through too which is very exciting as they are such beautiful flowers! I'm not too sure what the pink flowers are or the blue/lilac flowers. I'll have to ask mum on that one!

I'm hoping to get some decorative bits for the garden too. I'm not sure what yet I think an evening of Pinterest (which you should follow me on!) is ahead of me!

Do you have any gardening blog posts or know of any?

The garden project - part one.

Yesterday my Mum and I spent the day in the garden. We donned our wellies and spades and started on project garden. When we moved into the house last year we moved in too late to really start work on the garden so we decided that we would just let everything grow but keep on top of it making sure everything was tidy.  My Mum suggested that we then tackle it in the Spring. Which I guess brings us to now. 

I decided that I would share this project not only because I like to share things with you  but because there seems to be a real lack of gardening on blogs and some of the gardening blogs I have found are not the best when you are a beginner! I'm the first to admit I am clueless when it comes to gardening. That is why I invited my Mum over (good old mum) . She's knows her weeds from her wildflowers and I'm going to share her knowledge with you and hopefully I'll pick up some things on the way!

Yesterday we just wanted to get everything tidied up and ready for the warmer days when I can start planting and filling up my garden with flowers. This was easier said than done. The previous tenants did not make our job easy.

The previous tenants decided they would make a pond from a old butler's sink (it would be amazing if we could get it out and clean it up). Which would be wonderful if they had some sort of drainage. But no, it didn't. The water had become stagnant and filled with leaves. It was truly disgusting but my Mum got stuck in and cleared it out for me (see photos below) it is as disgusting as it looks. I'm planning to use it as a bed for flowers which will look a hell of lot better than mouldy water

The other challenge was the gravel and stone in the garden. We can't get rid of it all but my Mum has suggested some plants that will like the terrible soil so hopefully I can get some plants in. We found so many bricks buried in the soil that will come in handy for standing pots. Some of the bricks are in a sunburst and once we have uncovered all of them it will look lovely!

The other problem, was that the lovely previous tenants decided that instead of using the proper lining for gravel they used standard bin liners which were decomposing in the soil and preventing anything from growing. So we pulled those up too. 

The last photo shows the progress we made yesterday but I know that there is still a long long way to go until I can put my feet up and enjoy a pretty garden. Getting into a hot bubble bath was godsend after all the hard work.