How am I doing?!

Lovely garden. Love the hanging baskets too. It has given me a kick to get mine done :-)

Thanks Cazzalyn.

Welcome to Goy. You are certainly not sitting down on the job. You have worked wonders in a very short time. I don't know if you meant a cypress tree behind the honey pot or if we are thinking of different plants. A cotoneaster horizontalis would give you the green and height without intruding itself and its roots in to your water feature. I look forward to the next update.

Your garden looks fabulous So neat and tidy. Easy on the eye, a real pleasure to see. When you've dug your pond could you possibly , think about doing my garden......lol I seem to be in my garden quite a lot but it always looks unkempt, and kind of natural

can i ask where your getting your solar pump from as ive looked,prob in the wrong places,thanks chris,love the garden,the fenceing is realy nice

It's all looking lovely Mandy. Look forward to seeing the water feature in action...:o)

What a gorgeous garden you've done fantastic xxx well done and thank you for sharing xx

Thanks Scotsgran, I did mean a cypress tree, but I like your idea of a cotoneaster. Thanks Great, I would love to come and help in your garden but as you can see I'm a bit booked up at the moment LOL! I think natural is a lovely look for the garden, I'd like mine to be a bit more natural, but my tendancy to OCD stops me :o)))

Hi Chris, I ordered the solar pump from a company called PowerBee via Amazon, like you I scoured the internet for one, I'll let you know if it's anygood.

Thanks Dylan and Kimmy for your lovely comments, I'll post again when I've done the pond.

you have done really well,love your raised bed.

Thanks Michelle, I'm moving the plants from the raised bed and turning it into a pond with a bit of a bog garden over the next couple of weeks, hard work but I'm looking forward to it.

Your garden looks lovely and inviting, what beautiful colours you have picked.
All your hard work is obviously well wirth while, look forward to seeing some more as you go along. :)

looks lovely and so tidy

Thanks Caz and Viv for your lovely comments, I've been out planting some summer bulbs today, a bit late I think, but hopefully I'll get a few flowers this year to keep the colours coming.

looks great. i think the idea of apond next to the patio will be great, you can sit on your lounger watching all the wildlife it will attract

I agree Mageth, hope I'll get frogs, my daughter would love that!

You've been very busy and it's all paid off. Your garden looks great. Good luck with stage 3 :o))

Thanks Hywel, started stage 3 today. Moved plants, dug pond, put sand and pond liner in and then filled pond. I'm now relaxing with a nice cuppa, surveying my hard work! :o)

Sounds good to me :o)

if I know you, you won't have been sitting for long! It's coming along so well, I'm dead envious! Don't buy a cotoneaster, you know I have loads and will provide whenever you want, just say! xxx

Hi Lucy, haven't been able to sit about admiring my hard work for too long, liner sprung a leak! Had to empty pond, so decided to make pond deeper then line with old carpet and sand plus two layers of liner (got absoloutly tons of liner given to me free from a friend). Anyway spent yesterday redoing pond and it looks brill, even managed to get pump installed (aren't I clever), making waterfall today then putting coping stones on wall around pond on Saturday, job done!!

Very impressive :-)

Thanks HR :-))

You really have done loads in a very short time, Mandy. It puts me to shame as I am a slow-go gardener. I like so many of your ideas and lots of them are ideas I've done my best to explain to hubby. I think I'll just ask him to read your blogs and look at your photos....lol He might just then understand what I'm on about! He's not into the gardening much at all :(

I'm slowly working my way through your blogs and photos and have really enjoyed what I've seen so far. Good luck with your spring planting/plans this year :)