6 Our Garden

You have pretty gardens with fantastic views.
I like the way you've used lots of rocks and stones in your designs.

You have all the ingredients there just waiting for the spring boost they need.What beautiful bulbs too :)

Grand to have a view like that especially through the year as the colurs change,your bulbs are beauties as well...

Very nice, Bulbaholic. I shall enjoy watching the garden change over the seasons!

You have a lovely complex garden, hope to see more as the season progresses. The view is wonderful, and I love the Iris (and the other bulbs too)!

Thanks for showing us your garden and home.Some stunning views,and like the way you have utilised the shingle and rocks.

What a lovely garden you have made. Thank you for letting us see it. I love your sculpture too.

You're like me. I got rid of all the grass in all my gardens. You have a lovely view.

Thank you all for your kind comments. I get great pleasure out of working with it.

fantastic location very jealous!look forward to seeing your efforts

I've just halved my lawn, still got a desend size lawn as i myself like lawns, but have a lovely views & very nice garden, looking forwould to seeing it again.

What beautiful views you have.....good job my hubby is not looking over my shoulder he would be the colour of grass now, will look forward to more pictures.

Have to say the garden looks even better than the pix. and now David is retired and can work on at an easier pace...

Wow! What stunning views! And, I have to add, what do you feed your bulbs on???? They look superb!!!

Thank you and yes, the views can be great.
I grow my bulbs in a compost of equal parts loam, grit and leafmould to which I add bonemeal to give a compost something similar to a John Innes #2. After the bulbs finish flowering I give a weak feed of liquid tomato fertiliser every couple of weeks until the leaves have died back when I stop feeding, leave (most) of the pots to go completely dry before repotting from June to August.

Gr8! Lovely colours in the Spring flowers!

Thanks Bulbaholic! Don't laugh, but I've written down your instructions, so I will do the same. I've just ordered some bags for putting leaves in, as we gets loads of leaves every autumn. We are lucky in that we have lots of trees at the bottom of our garden, so no problem there!

I don't mean to be thick, but what is loam? (scratches head?) Thanks!

Hi Craftnutter, I'm not laughing; just remember that any suggestions that I put forward refer to the way that 'I' do things. I hate it when 'experts' pontificate and say that 'this is the way that it MUST be done'.
Loam is derived from grass turves that have been cut and then stacked upside down for several years until the grass has rotted off. For the last twenty years I have survived on sections of lawn that have been improved into flower beds etc. The lawns disappeared a few years ago so I am now living on borrowed time unless I can persuade a few neighbours to demolish their lawns. (If you like it is a quality soil. At a push it could be replaced with good garden soil).
I used to, and still do, put my leaves into sacks but recently hit on the idea of using those bags that builders merchants sell bulk sand and grit in. They hold 1 tonne and are supposed to be sent to the rubbish dump after use. They make excellent bins to tip the leaves into.

I dont like the sound of the weather forcast for your part of the country.....just when you thought it was safe to go out......

Thanks for your concerns, Daisy. In the event it wasn't too bad with just a smear of snow this morning that seems to be going away already (9am).
This is typical of the weather we can expect until the end of April. A few mild and sunny days then a day or two of cold weather with snow showers. There is still plenty of time for us to have another big dump but as the days get longer it will melt within just a day or two at the most.

I've just added this superb blog to GoYpedia Rockery Ideas and Gravel Garden Ideas....
beautiful garden...
Looking forward, please, to seeing more photos of these areas next springtime :o)

Thank you, Terra, I would hope to put up more pictures for you next spring.

Hi Bulbaholic...
Really looking forward to more pictures of your pretty rockeries and gravel gardens...
It would be lovely if you could put a few more on GoY as individual photos...because sometimes that then directs members to blogs so that they can see more... :o)