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Bless my dear friend stephen douglas for the pictures, great job hun :).

My Garden Pics

Well i finally got round to getting some garden pictures taken via my good friend stevie, we had tried to get it nice in preperation for marks birthday celebrations, but unfortunately the weather didnt play to nice and so the garden looks a lil bedraggled in places, but at least its still colourful, despite the lack of flowering plants lol.






il try posting more pics later as my pc is playing up guys x

The garden is coming together.

Im so sorry that i havent been keeping you guys up to date with whats been happening in the garden, it just seems there hasnt been much pc time at all of late so here i am trying to play catch up .

Anyway, we did have a massive clean up and weed of the place a few weeks ago, we managed to get all the garden furniture repainted and resealed for the year too.

We created what will hopefully turn out to be 3 very different coloured beds, using what shrubs i had already established as the back drop.
We should have a very calming bed of blues and pinks and whites to the left and a snorkus board of yellows, orange, burnt orange and rust in the centre, and then a hot bed of assorted reds to the right.

We have planted up some bulbs that will hopefully come back every year and im desperate to get some bedding plants in for some instant colour, however although its getting much warmer during the day now, the early morning still brings a frost with it sometimes so im holding off rather impatiently.

We got a fantastic bargain on ebay for 50 garden ornaments, this included lots of different animals and creatures such as dogs and cats, moles, badger, squirrel, crocodiles, dogs with their heads buried , lions ect and a few welcome to our garden signs.
We lovingly gave each one a new lease of life by pain stakingly painting each one and touching up those that were just a bit weathered and we are quite happy with how they have turned out. They will be placed all around the garden, hiding behind plants and tubs like some shy animals would, whilst the larger dogs ect will take pride of place near the seating areas ect.

I will take pictures just before and after we have the place set up for my sons 21st birthday in june, on that day and for the rest of the summer my garden will be awash with bright coloured windmills and other garden ornaments in his honour, im so excited to see how it all turns out, so please wish me luck, it means so much to me :) x

Almost time to start gardening.

I had hoped to wait until after the frosts to get stuck into my garden, weeding and cleaning it up, but circumstances are forceing us to move ahead with it sooner rather than later.

Its quite a mess out there as its been unattended for quite some time now so im not really looking forward to the initial tidy round, but once its done and ready for planting again il be happy.

As most of you know, i lost my son in january and the cemetary where he is buried is literally outside my back garden and his plot is right over the fence to us.
Due to the many regulations that the council now has on its plots, we have only a space of 9 inches by 27 to dress up and decorate.

So we have decided to carry on his memory in our garden as an extention of his plot, where we can put ornaments and garden lights ect in amongst our plants and bushes and plaques on our fences.

It would have been marks 21 birthday in june, so those that want to, have been invited to bring something for the garden in his memory and im really looking forward to seeing everything laid out.

Anyway, back to the main topic,
il try to remember to take some before and after pictures when i make a start out there, so watch this space for that, and if you are renovating, changing or just cleaning up your garden in the not too distant future, why not send us some pictures to look at :) x