My GOY Birthday

Happy GOY birthday Annella. :o))
Your garden looks fantastic, such an interesting layout and beautiful planting. It looks very lush and green, must be due to all the rain this summer!

Annella they are beautiful pictures of your lovely garden. I am so envious of your garden, it looks so interesting with all the different shapes. Well done on your one year with GoY.

happy golden trowl day annella and we enjoy having you here to, garden pics look stunning as usual, here`s to the next year ;o)) x

You have achieved so much in your 8 years of living with this garden. It's a credit to you. Congratulations on your first year with GoY too. : o ))

Your garden looks great Annella. A lovely combination of shrubs and flowers.
My GOY birthday isn't until next February, but like you I have loved my first season on the site.

lovely pics of your garden Annella... and happy g o y birthday....

Thank you so much girls, as this year has gone on I have tried so many more plants on my horrible clay slope and with success! All down to looking at other peoples gardens on here. Also finding the site in late October really helped me through the gardenless winter months :-)))))

g o y has helped me a lot to... ive learnt so much been on 2 years in january..... dont like this time of year.... cant wait for the spring when it all starts to grow again... : O ))

I feel lost Holly, and the clock change is a shock that's about to come. Now is my decorating time so I have something else to concentrate on..Lol x

Annella, your garden is wonderful. You have a lot of mature trees and bushes in your borders which I really do like. I was going to ask you how long your garden had been planted and then saw Shirley's comment about it being 8 yrs.

Your borders and the stepped areas are such a great mix of beautiful colours...you must spend hours planning it all as the assortment looks perfect.

This is an excellent site as you say...and it seems a lot of us stumble upon it when looking for help/information about gardening. It sure is a happy find for me too. Belonging for a year, you will have gone through all the seasons with your GOY friends....and the site will help us all to get through the winter in readiness for all the spring garden activity.

happy goy b day hun . your garden is hevenly ,i love it ...like you i get a LOT of insperation on here. every one is brill and adding goys frends to f.b now 2 allso i am doing decorating as well .urggg rather b in garden lol x

congrats!! I can't believe that you and I are both decorating our way through the winter blues!! why am I so surprised?;).

I hope you'll not mind me floating out a suggestion.....when I look at your beautiful slope, with the plants at a similar height, it reminds me of Piet Oudolf's Prairie style and i just can't help wondering what it would look like with a few golden grasses! Funny, as I was never a grass fan until about August when I started seeing them on here!

My garden has come on leaps and bounds this year and a lot of that is down to your encouragement! Thanks Ann! Great to 'know' you and look forward to seeing your garden a lot lot more!! :)))

Happy 1st goy year, so glad you`ve got a lot from it. I know that you have given me a lot of lovely comments and inspiration too from looking at your photos. Look forward to your next years contributions. :0))

Happy 1st birthday! Your garden looks amazing - I would love to have the knowledge to plant borders like yours. Look forward to seeing more!

Happy Birthday, Annella! Hope you stick around for another year of nuttiness....

Congrats from me.....have always admired your beautifully kept garden, glad you stayed around, so many come and go.
You have done so much in 8 years, lovely......

Happy belated Birthday on GOY, lovely garden a real credit to you, do hope you stick around .......

A belated happy birthday from me x

Thank you all!!! And Karen I have been checking out which grasses would live on the cold dark winter slope, I love them and am open to advise + suggestions. Blue seems to have gone quiet again so I will pm him as he is the grass Guru. I think you are my secret sister Ks63 ;~)

Goodness, well 'spritual' sister for sure!

what a beautiful garden ~ its like a painting
think you should do a version of monet's waterlilies: annella's roses?
that lawn looks great too
lots of hard work i guess?

i dont mind winter so much [dont like it so cold tho] cos sometimes i like to see the bare patches of earth and the spaces in the garden ~ easier to see what is coming up where.?

Happy belated GOY birthday Annella!! Sorry I missed this, but my wishes are just as fresh! It has been such a joy to meet you and call you a friend....GOY was your lucky find...You were mine! Thanks for all the laughter and smiles XXX Gorgeous, gorgeous garden! :~)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))X

Happy 1st birthday. Your garden is the one I visualise each time I think of the perfect place to be. You are a great gardener, well done!!
I too found this site by accident and it was an extremely great accident.

Beautiful garden, Annella!
I love GOY too, for all it's revamped weirdness. Trying not to grumble too much now, and just appreciate it! : o ))

A belated 'Happy GoY Birthday' to you lol.

So pleased you have enjoyed your first year, I am an my second and I really don't know what I would have done without GOY it has made my garden so much better with all the advice and plant pictures to encourage me. Long may it continue - hope you are not working too hard at the decorating.

Annella just realised I will soon be into my third year, gosh doesn't time fly by.

Loved the pics of your garden Annella...it is a real beauty, and the steps leading down with the Osteospurmums there....stunning....mine are coming on a treat and growing from the base....:o) Congrats on your year with us and many more to come!....:o)) X`

Thank you all for your lovely comments and Janey I'm glad they are doing well, they will be really strong come this time next year :-))

Annella, it's amazing what you have achieved in 8 years - gorgeous planting, especially love the Osteospermums by the steps. Really well done! :)

Thanks Sheilabub :-))

Ooooo Noooooo Sorry Annella missed this, just trying to catch up..... Belated happy GOY birthday. All your garden pics make me weak at the knees, especially the second from last, stunning:-))

Thanks Ba :-))))))))

Hi again. I keep coming back to these photos . . they are so beautiful! Would love to know the name of the white-flowered shrub on the right of No. 2? With thanks. :)

Hi Sheila, the shrub is Spiraea nipponica 'Snowmound'. I prune it hard every year after flowering so it stays small enough for the bottom of the slope :-)

Many thanks Annella: hopefully I'll track it down. :)

It has the wow factor brill

Thanks again Donnah :o))

oh, wow, that's a garden and a half! do you have any pics of the space before or just after you started to work on it, to give an idea of what the "blank canvas" was like?

Have a look at Annellas blogs Fran for before and afters...she's just a show off;-))

lol I thought of checking previous pics after I'd posted that .. handn't thought of blogs, thanks, will do