Counting my blessing not my weeds.

Good luck with it all Jenlewis

I'm pleased things are going well for you. Carry on enjoying your garden :)

this is going to develop into your own garden in no time soon. there is a good 'back bone' of trees and shrubs to get you started. the poppy is lovely :o)

blinking weeds what we do in our gardens with out them ? haha

Its good to hear you did make the right move in spite of your friends' advice! Your garden looks much tidier that You've made it sound with all your weed problems! I wish I live close enough to beg some of those plums...

Lol. Wish now I had taken some before and after photos. The beds with the poppy and then the rose filled my garden bin and then quite a few sacks with what I took out of them. Glad that all my hard work shows. :-). Last week filled my bin again then 8 sacks before took took pics. If you did live closer you would be most welcome to some plums Steragram.

You are already happy there and just imagine as you get the garden more and more as you want it.Its good that you haven't just gone in and taken everything out.You have lots of gems that someone has loved and nurtured.

Jen that was a lovely thing to say, I'm glad to have helped.

Your garden is already looking lovely, it looks a beautiful place and I'm sure it will look even better once you've put more of your own ideas into it. Enjoy yourself.

If your where I think you are there's a lovely garden centre not that far away - bridgemere - it's on the Derby, Shropshire border. Huge place, big garden centre with a fabulous plant selection (it's a wyvale place so not especially cheap), plus a few other shops like Lakeland and hobby craft. I'm fairly sure they have gardens as well but we've never been round them.

Hi Paul, yes a lot of lovely gems and think with my last week push have turned the corner with the other stuff, still not saying the W word ?.
Sam, I've already found it ?. Been there couple times. As you say bit pricey but they allow dogs in all the shops other then Lakeland and Hobby craft. From what I've read on your blogs like you I do a lot of baking so Lakeland has always been a favourite.

Glad you're enjoying it, looks lovely :-))

Haha your way ahead of me then. Glad you found it. Another one that might be within a reasonable drive is a place called Jacksons nursery which is in Bagnall in Stoke on Trent. A lot smaller, but independently run and not as pricey. A nice garden to visit round there (sort of, we pass it on the way to bridgemere) is the Dorothy Clive gardens in willoughbridge in Shropshire. Beautiful place.

I don't do as much baking these days, just don't have time. Lakeland is a good one to visit though. I had a great time at the cake show at the NEC a couple of years ago.

Sam you are making me nostalgic for N Staffs.....

Sorry stera - it is a lovely place, but then so is where you are now.

I've got a load of photos from our visit to Dorothy Clive the other year, I'll have to see about posting them for you.

Jen: I really envy you all that fruit. At the moment my little cherry tree has two cherries on it! Love plums but too late now to plant fruit trees.

Weeds or no weeds your garden looks good to me.

Eirlys thank you so much for your kinds comments. 1 of the trees in the middle in the back garden is a cherry but I don't think we will get any as the birds are busy eating them all which I don't mind. We have 4 nests in the garden and I could and have spent hours just watching them. They seemed to last year leave the plums alone.