CV-19 gardens

[funflair]

Apologies to anybody who doesn’t have a garden but quite fancies one at the moment, it will get better though and I will be the one dashing home to cut the grass.

We have had a lazy lockdown but it still looks OK and most likely as good as it’s going to be.

Couple of years ago there would be a 50ft conifer in this shot,

Might have a day off tomorrow ?

Martin

 

[Holly's mum]

What a lovely garden, obviously lots of love and care gone into it.

 

[davidbaldam]

Great looking garden, do like to see a good garden, usually from a hammock with a drink in my hand.

 

[funflair]

Well I can’t be the only one to spend the last 8 weeks at home gardening so “care to share”

I know Joy movan has worked wonders with hers.

M

 

[Podney]

Nice garden. Good soil by the look of it.

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[funflair]

Nice garden. Good soil by the look of it.

Thanks but actually not that good at all so we spend a fortune on compost and make our own to use but it seems to go back to rock hard every year so I dig it over before the frost.

Martin

 

[funflair]

What a lovely garden, obviously lots of love and care gone into it.

Thanks but it doesn't demand that much time and care actually, OK we can spend as much or as little time as we like and we are a bit more organised this year with being at home, the big difference is the greenhouses and veggie plot are a lot better than most years when we would be away now. The colour is just down to nature and comes back every year without our help, we don't do flower borders it has to thrive on neglect and loads of chipping everywhere to keep the weeds down.

Martin

 

[Neckender]

Here’s my small garden everything is growing fine, our Wisteria has flowered the best it’s ever done, we’ve got a pair of brown Linnets, a pair of Blackbirds and a pair of Blue Tits visiting regularly everything is the best it’s ever been.

John.

 

[Janine]

Lovely garden!
In the absence of any garden centre plants, I am cultivating the buttercups and daisies in the lawn
The bees love them ?

 

[Puddleduck]

We bought an additional piece of land that adjoins ours and it's been under landscape fabric for 18 months. Martin has worked wonders on it - I think it has been used as a tip in years gone past as he has found part of a car and lots of broken plastic toys.

Unfortunately it faces north.

Also it's volcanic rock very close to the surface as you can see here:

The houses are all on the north side and were built on the unproductive land or land that could not be cultivated. When we built this house we had to get a "rock pick" machine to dig the foundations and our drive is gravel over bedrock.

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[Kirsten]

we need an 'envy' button xxx

 

[Neckender]

I’ve just posted my garden on this thread and stated the birds we’re having and my neighbour where the linnets are nesting in his Shaped conifer has come out with electric hedge cutters and shaped the conifer then started to whack it with a garden spade.
I told him that the linnets were endangered he said if he new that he would have cut the conifer down, I’m fuming but won’t get into an argument with him over this.

John.

 

[funflair]

No accounting for some people John, we have a lot of feeding activity the last week or so.

Martin

 

[Glandwr]

A bit scruffy but I like it that way (he says). Followimg on from Neckender the hole in the tree has a Nuthatch pair nesting that I discovered before it went on the firewood pile (rotten as a pair and completely hollow. See if you can spot the van. Bare earth cos I'm reseeding

 

[PeteH]

Lots of nice gardens. Wife would love it. Me? I don't do grass, for starters, we have this arrangement, It don't grow, I don't cut it!. Now all gravel and Paving. But much better for Wifes`s scooter/Wheel Chair anyway. Raised beds Help. When I had near half an acre of Lawn, it was a total PITA. Beautiful house. But as I said to herself, I fall of the twig, who`s going to see to it?. Once the R-V went, we down sized. Rapido lives on the drive in front of the garage, which has the 5 year and counting "project" car, now that`s my interest.

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[Riverbankannie]

Glandwr - wasn’t too difficult !
Neckender - why is Mrs Neckender wearing a mask in the conservatory?
funflair - beautiful garden - have you been watering that lawn? My water butts have been empty for a month and grass is beginning to suffer.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Here are a couple from a month ago when the grass was still green and the bluebells were out.

 

[meanders]

Our wild garden with late evening visitor.
Picture quality not good as taken through doors.

 

[rb62]

Gardens never been so weed free and tidy and it's nice to see some thing we usually miss

 

[Podney]

I’ve just posted my garden on this thread and stated the birds we’re having and my neighbour where the linnets are nesting in his Shaped conifer has come out with electric hedge cutters and shaped the conifer then started to whack it with a garden spade.
I told him that the linnets were endangered he said if he new that he would have cut the conifer down, I’m fuming but won’t get into an argument with him over this.

John.

That’s a pity.

Anybody with a brain cell knows that you don’t cut hedges until the dickie birds have finished nesting.

Maybe he is just a moron.

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[funflair]

Glandwr - wasn’t too difficult !
Neckender - why is Mrs Neckender wearing a mask in the conservatory?
funflair - beautiful garden - have you been watering that lawn? My water butts have been empty for a month and grass is beginning to suffer.

Yes the lawn has had a bit of water, certainly not as much as next door, she's not far off 24/7, her husband says he thought everybody needed wellies to go outside in the summer.

Ours was in really poor condition so I have tried to get some life back into it with a weed feed and mosskiller and scarifying followed by a bit of local reseeding.

Martin

 

[funflair]

Here are a couple from a month ago when the grass was still green and the bluebells were out.
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I could fancy a bit of woodland like that

Martin

 

[Hollyberry]

Love seeing immaculate gardens , all the ones here are beautiful, but I’ll never own one. I hate gardening with a vengeance. Will get some raised beds built for veg next year though.

 

[Neckender]

Glandwr - wasn’t too difficult !
Neckender - why is Mrs Neckender wearing a mask in the conservatory?
funflair - beautiful garden - have you been watering that lawn? My water butts have been empty for a month and grass is beginning to suffer.

I never noticed that Annie so I enlarged the picture and Pats drinking her favourite drink a mug of cappoccino.

John.

 

[Podney]

Love seeing immaculate gardens , all the ones here are beautiful, but I’ll never own one. I hate gardening with a vengeance. Will get some raised beds built for veg next year though.

Well you don’t hate it that much then,do you?

You either hate it with a vengeance,in which case you don’t do it,or you don’t hate it,in which case you do it!

Which is it?

Must be wimmins logic,which I have never understood .

After your raised beds are a rip- roaring success you may turn from hating it with a vengeance,to loving it with a passion...........much more fun!

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[Minxy]

See if you can spot the van.

You're slipping though ... I spotted the £1 coin that you didn't pick up!

 

[CazPaul]

I wish I had more time in the garden, it's the views that I can't get enough of after 20 years.

Up here the snow is usually all we see in winter.

Toads last week and an adder today but it had slithered off when I came back out with my phone(Dontvtell Caz is scared of them)

I have just added to the native hedge, Rowan, Silver Birch, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Dog rose, Hazel.

The first photo is an Oak tree I planted 10 years ago, it's a short growing season up here, when I am 500 years old I will whoosh back and check on its growth.

Second photo is a maple tree planted 3rd April this year for our anniversary.

 

[CazPaul]

 

[bigwood]

Our garden was supposed to be easy to maintain according to the lady we bought the house from. It is lots of small beds at different levels. The rockery hides the base of the old garage.
It is easy to look after but seems to revert to jungle very quickly when we are away. I put weed matting down and slate on top. It makes the weeds easier to pull up.
We get more birds visiting than others with pristine gardens. They must like the more rustic garden. Our solar fountain and bird bath are always busy.

 

[Paddywack]

We started an extension the first week of lockdown, with a bit of luck the final element - the doors will arrive just as things are lifted in the first week of June. In consequence the garden has taken a bit of a backseat but things are beginning to come together with the patio finished today just the gravel to add. In the greenhouse and vegetable beds things are beginning to stir.

So now seems a good time to sit down out the front and watch the sun go down.

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