My first REAL garden attempt

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9th June 2009
Fully attacked the old raised bed which was overgrown with Trees so now I have 4 stumps to remove or kill off. don’t fancy the work so may cut to grown level and try what my neighbours says i.e. to cut a cross in the stump and pour in creosote but I thought that was a wood preseve not to encourage rotting? I’ll ask a question on the right question area. in GOY Great to be gaining back ground from over grown area though… I’ll let you know what I decide on this.

7th June 2009
Not much chance to do much due to the rain but aleast this has brought on the plants and opened up the Peonys (See pics)

2nd June 2008
At last!… the last plants are now in albeit a little dodgy on where I put the ultra small Bizzy Lizzies. I doubt if they will grow, not getting much sun to flower on this side of the garden… if they take off at all. Not being negative here but they were very pathetic seedlings that needed bringing on but nowhere to do that… so straight in the bed. Let see eh…

1st June 2009
Sutton plugs arrive really disapointed with the quality and size (Micro plugs petunia geranium and gazania) but if they do catch up and take off should be ok.just need to finish off planting out the 130 very small Bizzy Lizzy’s Impatiens when I decide where they are going. Photo soon of the newly planted bed.

26th/27th May 2009. Finally I am now planning out the 169 plans and the shrubs into the prepared bed. I must keep on top of watering as this is usually my weakness.
Still expecting another 190 plants from Suttons to be delivered but now not 100% sure where I am going to plant them as the prepared ground is nearly full….Looks like I need to move on an prepare a new area to accommodate them…See new pic at bottom of blog. (20 old pics under my pictures)

25th May 2009
Early start took 6 hours today to clean up all my mess re trees. Cut the lawns and just chilling out now ready for the big planning session tomorrow and Wednesday.

24th May 2009
Collected all the branches and bits to make a 6 foot by 5 foot pile of cuttings. The back lawn is covered in tree bits and branches.

23rd My 2009
decided to claim even more space back from an overgrown raised bed area. This meant chopping 4 trees in half and taking 2 others to grown level… I’ve left the roots and stump so far. I took a good 10 foot of holly and conifers as well as attacking the conifer hedge at the front taking them down to 10 feet high. Meanwhile Julie my wife treated all the back fence with wood preserve… and a good job of it she made too..

19th May 2009
Thanks for the kind comments re starting points for the garden you are all very kind. However you can see that appart from the roses the garden does not have any plants… oh except the Peony mix with the roses. It grows well there. I will take on board all your comments which are great and start the work… No garden work today got a new set of ladders deliveried and cleaned out sandy moss from the gutters… that went in the council green bin not my compost bin.

18th May 2009
Just added 10 pics of diferrent views for the rear garden… yes bad, I plain and need to go forward to be “A Garden” You all asked for the start pics so here they are… Lets hope in 1 year we see a big difference. Thanks to all M.

17th May 2009
Re pix they will come as soon as it’s possible re Garden and plans to nameI only joined GoY a few hours ago…. Not doing bad 2 questions and a blog… I will gets pixs ;>)

17th May 2009
OK folks here we go… I’m going for it this year.. I’m trying to have a garden not just a lawn and a rose bush or two. I have grandiose ideas for a garden for years in my head but NEVER did anything about it. I lve in Cheadle Hulme Cheshire.

Basically The square lawn image is really a true picture. The lawn has bad slope to the left rear mainly due to a tree that was removed before we move in and a dip to a pub car park being lower then our house.

The garden unforntunatly faces east looking out of the back windows and is appox 42ft X 45 foot with wooden overlap fence at the end, Ivy hedge on the south side, a mixed hedge of beech and then conifer on the north side. A little crazy path to the south side where there is a boarder to next door with five rose bushes. And thats it !! (West side is the rear of the house patio brick and table/chairs plus BBQ).

I have an apple tree quite small and manageable gives about 80 or so apples (Red eating) and a another Russset. I did a hard prune to both Red is fine so far re flowers Russet 1 flower this year now but usally again about 70 or so.. I’m sure it will come back.

The front garden is just a square lawn with a little raised bed to the Noth side. A brick drive. Both front and rear has very large oak and line and poular trees and I mean large !

As you can see no flowers realy and that MUST change as I love colourfull Gardens. I NEED HELP from you guys…

So here we go charge/make my garden!!!
I want some shape and perhaps feature or two in the garden. The lawns are in pretty good condidtion as a man comes 4 times a year to feed and weed and when I have money I have him scarrify early in the year. I do keep on top of cutting and now I have had this mad surge of ‘Doing the garden’ it looks clean but empty.
Date now May 17th 2009 Just bough a few plans from the local church the names of which i will add when I find them out.

Help me if you can rre garden. I look forward to out journey together..
Michael

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