Through the garden gate .......

Isn`t it great when the weather is kind and the spring has sprung. To say your soil is not in tip top condition you have lots thriving and as you say your fence will soon be covered.

Looks good to me OJ

Your garden looks lovely OJ.
I bet when the weather is good its a lovely place to be :-)

What a gorgeous view through the garden gate OJ..

What a bonnie wee garden you have!

Thanks, everyone. Although it is looking better than it has in previous 2 springs since I was presented with a blank canvas, it has a long way to go yet.

Yes, Stroller, the weather has been very kind and it's the only place I want to be on a good day, Willinilli.

Thanks for your nice comments, Sheilar (like the new avatar), YDD and Scottish (like the 'bonnie').

It's coming along well Oji. The climbers are doing nicely and I am jealous of that lovely big brown pot.

superb :)))))))))) Also so tidy and well kept :))))))))

Thanks Pimpernel and Paul. Actually, Paul, I see the grass could do with a cut! Yes, Pimpernel, it's coming along, but i need more climbers, lots of them! The big brown pot is filled with alpines and they do well in it. It was a bargain because there is a big chip in the base at ground level which no-one ever sees. Not easy getting it home in the car!

It's looking lovely Oji....and I love your focal point planters! :))

Thanks, Karen. Such a bonus to get good spring weather. Then everything looks better than it usually does.

Do see Red Squirrels Ojib? surely this is their area. What other wildlife might you see?

Yes, SS, there are reds in the natural woods up beyond the house, not in the Forestry Commission trees you can see in the photo, though. There are pheasants strutting around everywhere and birds galore, including GS woodpeckers Before the garden was planted, I once found a little lizard basking in a sunny corner and there are water voles in the burn below the house. I thought they were rats until someone put me right.
Great place to live really.

Your garden is very pretty.You've made an interesting shape to the path :o)

Thanks, Hywel! All effort going into the front garden now. A different story - all open and exposed to the elements.

That's brilliant Ojib. And highland people, how would they differ to lowlanders? Maybe just as the Red Squirrels they are always there, in all the weathers and trials. Not city park dwelling greys...

(Laughing) Ah well now, SS - I would not wish to start any debate on that one! Least said, I think.......

Lol, true ;)

I love your garden! Especially the way you have shaped the border and made a little patio area. :)))

Thankyou, Sheilabub! It's been a good season this time. Best since I've been here so that everything is much further on than is usual for March.
Today it is 22.4C in the shade out there. Who could have predicted that?

Wow! That's brilliant Ojib . . . Factor 15 as far as the eye can see? :))

Your garden is lovely and coming on nicely from a blank canvas I'd say.Well done:)

Thankyou, Niverdeen. It's 10 days since I posted this photo and looking at it again, I can hardly believe how far on it has come in that short space of time, with all this wonderful weather we have had.

Your garden's great - which prompts me to want to pick your brain, and those of your bloggers! I'm looking for quick growing ground cover on a banking down to water at end of garden. I'm in Ayr, Scotland, so looking for hardy plants to survive our seasons. I'd prefer long flowering - and to be really greedy is it possible to walk on them?!

Cheers, maestros!

Alan

Thanks, Alan. Good to see another Scot on the site!
I've put a suggestion in answer to your question. I'm sure others will help, too.

Lovely Ojib, I don`t know how I missed this, your garden is doing really well and certainly no blank canvas now, I like your border and patio, can see why you`d like to be outside, its a haven you have created, on lovely days I `d spend all my time outside with a view like that as a backdrop...

Thankyou, Lincslass, for those kind comments. I do love my little garden. It's not a haven today, though. It's snowing here!

I thought I'd come and look at your garden after you came to mine and yours looks like its going to be your little paradise. We are also on a hill, not ever so big , though, but the first thing we did when we came here, was to plant a mixed natural hedge and now its at least 8 foot high and shelters us from the westerlies. Because we have a good size garden , we also planted little trees every so often.I read in a G.W. book by Alan Titchmarsh, that for the height of every little tree you plant , eg., 6foot , you plant another 6foot away from this and then the wind is slowed down.
Nice to meet you.

My front garden, which is a bit bigger, is open to the elements and we are not allowed fences or hedges there. So, it is kept as low maintenance as possible, and my efforts are concentrated on the back garden where it is also completely private, which I enjoy. Happiness for me is a sunny day working in the garden.

Mine too, Ojibway. Happy gardening.

Lovely garden you have and great view too! :)

looks lovely :)

Thanks, CC. When I look at this photo it looks so bare compared to today. I must post another picture of the same view soon - after we get some sun to bring the flowers out, maybe.