Progress update on the new outdoor garden beds - slowly, slowly getting ...

Lovely blog bernieh and such organisation, the flowers are beautiful.

That looks brilliant Bernieh, so orderly and neat, I bet the local DIY store or builders yard loves you.

It look s great Bernieh love the walled garden it looks super.

Bobg - I felt sorry for poor hubbie. It's long drive into the city to the nearest garden supply place and poor hubbie had to go in 3 times in the one day during all this - we'd both underestimated the number of blocks we'd need and then, of course, needed more when we decided to add the middle wall!

Thanks Tulsalady and Morgana - it's certainly starting to take shape now.

It looks really nice lots of work involved but I bet it will be worth it.

Thanks Mavis - still more to do but it's getting there.

It looks really lovely Bernie :-)

Beautiful garden! I like to watch it 'fill in' ...it's taken me about 10 years to get my 'lavender patch' the size it is! It only started with one plant.

Brilliant Bernie So much work and planting has gone into it, you have so many different plants and its great to see the progress that has taken place, well done to you both!

Looking lovely already Bernieh, and will just get better and better, love seeing all your lovely plants, most I've never heard of and probably wouldn't grow here, but nice to see them growing in your garden.

Looking good Bernieh, I hope hubbie got a big thank you for all those trips into the city?

Looks brilliant Bernieh you are lucky i don't think i would go to the garden centre 3 times in one day , he's a top fella ...

Its great Bernieh and already filling up a treat,you have some lovely plants there.....

well done it looks grand, hard work but worth it.

Really coming on beautifully Bernieh you have both done a great job :o))

Ha Bernieh, it sounds like me when I'm doing a job I go into great detail planning what I will need, only to underestimate and have to go get more stuff, my gates were a success as I did get the sums right for once. :o))

Thanks all - very kind.

Ian digs - of course hubbie got a great big thank you ... I think it went along the lines of .... Do you think you've got the estimate right this time ... darling?
Only joking ... I left the estimations up to him and as the plans changed he very obligingly kept going off to get more blocks. He's a sweetheart really!

Bobg - as I've said above, usually I leave the estimations of how much material will be needed to hubbie and he's always spot on, but this time WE (I stress the WE) kept changing our minds about how big the garden beds should be ... so it turned into a big, big day.

Thanks for the tour of your garden again, Bernieh. I love the before & after pictures as you can then see the progress made!
You have some lovely flowers there & the garden will soon take shape. Plants grow so quickly.

Thanks Balcony ... as long as everything in these new beds gets through the hot, humid summer that's on it's way, then I'll be happy.

inspirational xxxx

Thanks Kimmy. Just had a look at your photos ... lots of potential. As you can see from my blog, most of us just go slowly ... little by little it gets there.

Your garden beds are like the colours of the rainbow. They're lovely.

I love that you do not go in for instant gardening, so often small plants take much better than bigger ones. I love it. The before and after pictures are so inspiring.

Madaboutplants - no I'm not the instant gardener type ... I'm more the try this out first, stand back and wait to see how it goes, then move on! I think lack of substantial finances just for gardening also has something to do with it .. Ha! This new area of garden beds is coming along very well ... but it's still very much a work in progress. I won't be doing much more just now ... will wait to see how everything that's already planted gets through our summer first!