the story of my garden

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hi everyone, im really new to gardening, only really since last year i have took an interest in it, i live in a close and share a large back garden with alot of grass with 5 other families, whom nobody cut so it was like a jungle most of the year, long story short, i had a wee girl and wanted some nice outside space we could enjoy so i bought her a wee house with some pots with bulbs in them, snakeshead and muscari

lovely artwork in the background.

so that was the begining, all summer veronica played in her house and i got bored just sitting, the house was only big enough for 1 wee person, so i started pottering, weeding, cutting, digging, and discovered i loved gardening, and ma man loved it too, ma boy allan had played in the garden when it was a jungle and it was right up a wee boys street, he found frogs, newts and all sorts, ma garden is very boggy and waterlogged so june lastyear i had 2 large travel chests and a few pots and a handfull of sunflower seeds and a few other bits n pieces

after the sunflowers were over i used the chest to sow salad crops, which failed, i never looked after them properly, and soon found out vegetable gardening wasnt for me, strawberries i love growing but thats it

i then decided to stop ma allan and his friends tormenting the frogs and putting them into various containers with stones and grass and worms and wanting to keep them as pets, id build a pond for them to live in…….the frogs, not the kids, and they could watch them and see them without upseting them, so i dug a hole!!! a very small one ha ha

a muddy puddle for a mucky pup

these are all the pictures over time of the pond, right up to tonight, im a garden recycler and made this out of reclaimed things, the only thing i had to buy was liner and a few wee plants






i took this picture tonight

with wild brambles growing behind it on the shoddy council fence.

so thats the story of my pond, its a lovely wee area.

over time i have dug out a border against a fence i have runs along the whole of the garden which is a public pathway into the local woodland, pah i wish, dumping ground and dog messing path, its beautiful woodland but has been neglected and not looked after over the years, the fence is that metal mesh and i have no privacy from anybody walking by, every tom dick n harry, so no bikini sunbathing for me in the hot weather, i planted comtesse de bouchard clematis and passionflower which died off but the clematis ggrew well, i now have 8 clematis planted along that fence along with honeysuckle and jasmine and a climbing rose, they are all very new plants so no privacyas yet but hopefully within 2 years, or am i racing ahead of myself??

i have since added a semi circular willow bed,made by my wonderful man, can i add none of this would have been possible without his strong back and wanting to make me happy xxxx i have sciatica, bummer eh x

rockery pictures, was a herb rockery, but has been turned into the secret corner, with ferns, iris, ivy, petunias, lupin,clematis, sage and tyme, and of course wild starwberrries and wild brambles for a wee snack while you sit and ponder, veronicas favourite corner x

this is the start of my first raised bed for growing potatoes, as i said im not a veg grower so scott ma partner is in charge of all that, hes a chef so loves the whole fresh produce, i love it too just eating it though. we had a lovely crop of charlotte potatoes which were lovely, i dont have a picture but im sure you all know what potatoes look like

the potatoes got dug up and the raised beds moved and i now have a big border, scott has moved all his veg to one side of the garden and has tomatoes trying to grow, he has garlic, all sorts of herbs, i grew wee amsterdam carrots, we even have mango trees ha ha, he is convinced they will grow to produce fruit, but we have qbout 4 shoots growing so we shall see, raspberry bushes, oh god i dont know he has that much its hard to keep up with, date palms, fig trees olive trees, his crop of purple sprouting broccoli is doing well though the wee caterpillars love it

i could go on and on and on for hours telling you all about ma garden, its very new and ungrown, but to me its my special place and in the words of jamiroquai

“this corner of the earth is like me in many ways, i could sit for hours here and watch the emerals feathers sway, on the face of it, when the sunlight comes for free, i know this corner of the earth it smiles at me”.

its my little corner of my earth and here are just a few things im rather proud of in my wee space, thanks for reading my blog x

• 31 Aug, 2012
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