More lawn nibbling

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Yep I’ve been at it again. I’ve had the last week off work, so between gardens and garden centre visiting and wedding dress shopping (that was fun, although I started to feel like a life size barbie Doll lol) I’ve been out digging.

I’ve carried on working my way up the garden from the shady bit, so now I’ve gone up past the fruit trees to the eucalyptus border.

Here’s a before shot – I’ve worked my way up from the right hand side of the border in the photo to just before the pink flowered lamium (if you can make it out – to the right of the Eucalyptus)

As I keep forgetting to take before pictures, this is one from a couple of months ago.

After lots of digging, a bit of lawn nibbling and plant moving this is what I’ve got now

Lots of gaps to fill (and no clue what to fill them with) but looking better I think. Just redefining the border edge makes a huge difference. Plus taking out the huge hollyhocks. They were planted before the fruit trees were even in the plan and unfortunately proved far too big for the fruit trees. They’re now potted up waiting for a new home. I’m thinking about planting them against the house in the front garden.

As well as that I’ve started getting my annuals in to fill gaps in the bits I’ve dug earlier this year:

The shade border I worked on earlier in the year has already filled out. I’m really pleased with how it’s worked out so far:

This photo is taken from the chairs next to the border:

Just for a bit of fun, here’s a couple of other photos I took of the garden tonight

I’ve got a busy few weeks ahead. The diggers should be here Friday to start work on the front garden :-) I can hardly wait. As well as that, going to work and working on the back garden, I decided I didn’t have enough to do. So I decided to spruce up moms deck for her birthday next week and install a drip irrigation system to the pots. I’ve got OH to build a raised herb bed for the deck as well. The plan is to haul everything round on Thursday, finish work at lunch and hopefully get it all set up ready for her birthday Saturday. Fingers crossed it works. The upshot is I may go quiet for a bit. At least till I find time to breathe again lol.

• 4 Jun, 2017
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