Garden Projects 2009 - Part 1 - Planning, Plants, and Ideas......

Itl look Fab Ang im sure as everything else uv done up2now has made such an improvement to your Garden :)Cant wait2see more Pics when alls done :)x

Great plans. Planning is such an exciting stage, imagining how things could look.Really intersting. Will look out for your progress reports.

thanks for the incoraging comments, i should really be getting on with the house work, but i think i can see the sun just trying to come out, Brookes at school....oh well hovering and dusting can wait can't it - you may not have to wait too long for the next installment!

Well you have done some planning, i'm thinking of changing my garden, infact i did some drawing's last weekend,i know what i've done on paper and how i wont it to look, but because i'm no good at drawing folks can't make head or tail of what i've done, but i can follow it, & as long as i know that will do me.

Well done Ang. It looks like its going to be great. It is exciting when you make plans. I look forward to updates on your progress.

It looks like a good plan to me Angie. I'm looking forward to seeing it develop.

thank you, and Clarice, i am the same, i very rarely do plans on paper it is all largely done in my head and from laying things out on the ground, i find it much easier to see where i am going like this, i find it hard to imagine what it will look like on paper, and rubish at drawing lol. but i gues everyone is different just about finding a way that works for you is'nt it. so at the end of the day, does'nt really matter if no one else can follow as long as you know what your doing!

Thoughtful design and much to look forward to in the new season. My first season crocus plants have just poked their little heads up and I was excited as a kid on Christmas day.

Good to hear you've done your planning first majeek - that's the way I tend to work too. I may be a step ahead of you though as I'm ordering plants this week (for delivery in March)

thanks Ams and Andrew, if you do it this way Andrew, then i must be doing something right! lol to be honest, the main plants for this display are already ordered, ofcourse there will be other things i will need for gap filling, thoughs i will wait and see what i need, once i get to placing stage. once the back bone is placed how i want it, i will plant and look at it as 2 seperate beds, the view from the bench and the view from the patio. as the main planting with the big stuff will be coming from the fence to the edge of the bed, where the widest part is, so once established will pretty much block the view, ofcourse i want it to tie together, but if i work this all out right you won't be able to see it all at once, you will actually have to move around to the garden to get the full picture. i can see most of it in my head, but i never usually know just how good it will look until i start placing then the inspartion really starts to flow. i am really excited about this project, i think once completed it will make the rest of what i have done fall into place, well i hope....i have been out there today braving the mud bath, just to map out this bed properly...i'll load on the latest pictures for you to see, much clearer than the white string.

One tip I picked up from a gardening book - once you are happy with the shape of a new border, use a half moon edging tool and cut about an inch either side of your piece of string (or just use a spade). Peel back the turf in between the two cuts and hey presto, the edge of your border is visible and you can take your string away before starting to dig the new area

Great Idea Andrewr il remember that Myself:)

LOL - great minds think a like Andrew, that is just what i did! - i think we must read the same books!

Interesting blog.
I'm looking forward to seeing your progress during 2009 :o)

Well, a great start to the new-look back garden, Angie! You were lucky with the weather - I'm glad. My trouble, like yours, is that once I have an idea, I just HAVE to get going on it!

thanks TT, and Spritz, lol - i am affraid patients not one of my virtues!....and it was like a mud bath today, but i will be back out there in the next few days digging - regardless.

The view of the greenhouse will be a thing of the past - really well planned and makes a very shapely lawn.

I like the shape of the lawn Maj. it flows in bends like a river and where you have broken the length with trellis will look lovely when your plants have grown up them , I,m looking forward to seeing it progress .........

Thanks Wagger and Amy, i am really pleased with it too, it finally feels right, each time i have made a change so far, i have been happy with what i have done, but still not quite right if you know what i mean, but this time i think i may have cracked it, well we shall see....

Well, Angie, you have set yourself some hefty targets, haven't you? I'm sure you'll achieve themn all, however. looking forward to seeing your progress. Pittosporum "Tom Thumb" and Sambucus "B;ack Lace" are favourites of mine, too. :-)

You have got a lot of exciting ideas, cant wait to see it all, you have a fair sized garden so flowing beds look good,we all need a change and having a project keeps us focused, like your choice of plants, have a couple of Pittosporum but not Tom Thumb, on my list to buy and Sambucus BL is lovely, good luck with the planning.

thank you, i am going to brave the mud later today regardless, it has been raining all night again so would imagine it will be good fun out there lol but so much that needs doing, and i have to get the witch hazel and the other plants in the corner moved before i can start on the te-pi and best to do the te-pi while dormant, so don't have long to get going, and yes i do love to aim high, should get it all done though, it is mainly the weather preventing me at the moment.

Good luck out there in the cold rain today !

Great blog I enjoyed reading it and looking at all your hard work

follow the yellow brick road follow the yellow brick road la la la lol looking fine what a lovley shape gargen.it makes my mind go on overdrive looking at it.bring on the spring

lol thats already been done NP, have a look on Davids page.... he had a proper oz garden at his last house, absolutely fantastic! i think he is doing charlie and the choclate factory at his new one....i am going for encharntment and mistery. rather than munchins lol...watch this space to see the results. ;-)

ow i cant weight to see it and davids

thanks NP will need a bit of imagination when it's all done as will need to grow a bit before it will really work. and have you been on David's page? he has loads of picture of his oz garden, it really is fanastic, even the plants have relevant names, go have a look....

ow i got to lol

i love the way the border is shaped Majeekahead, it looks fantastic look forward to seeing it with flowers etc in spring/summer!

thanks Sewing, i have just been tweeking the next installment of this, so you won't have to wait long for the update. have been quite busy, all taking shape nicely.

ive said it before and ill say it again your doing all the right things.your lucky to have a garden that shape.what sprang to mind when i sore your bigger flower beds.turn the lawn into a winding wide pathe and have bigger flower beds.you could always get some stepping stones and lay them down a completly seperate course including going though your beds.you dont have to listern to me lol.looks realy cool.you are better going with what youve got as a garden than trying to change it if you know what i mean.you sound like and look like you got it sorted

NP great minds, i have plans for a stepping stone path going through the largest bed....i had some single stepping stones through it before widening it. not quite sure how it will work yet, but i may do odd stones, dotted to allow access to the back and then can have pots on them when not in use. or i may go the whole hog and put in a little path, maybe with wood retainers and bark, not sure yet how it will work. need to get the bed organised first lol

sounds good keep up the good work lol

thanks NP will do :0)

nice one