A long long term project all this, to tart up the side at the front. It started a number of years ago to turn what was really just long grass and weeds at the side of the driveway into something a bit more appealing. I notice a lot of people down our road have just [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the_front’
26 Jun
More Flowers
It seems amazing sometimes that from a bare garden in the middle of winter all this is hiding away under the soil ready to burst out in the summer!
24 Jun
Flowers flowers flowers
The whole garden is full of daisies, big ones, small ones, ones yet to appear!
24 Jun
Berries in the front garden
Hidden behind the planks of wood (a future project… one day) are the wild strawberries and the tayberry bush. The strawberries are a bit of a pain and why oh why would I plant fruit that I cannot eat! They look a mess in the winter and they try to grow all over the place, [...]
22 Jun
Ladybirds in the Front Garden
We sowed meadow and wild flower seed in the front garden a number of years ago and ever since we get a mainly different display of wildflowers each year. That must be the best 99p that we paid for the seeds ever! This year along with the flowers we seem to have millions of ladybirds, [...]
20 Jun
Wild Flowers
The wild flowers in the front garden grass have all come out once again and made the front of the house turn into a field of these giant daisies. They dancing in the wind and follow the sun until they go to bed late at night.
3 Apr
Green Shoots on Gooseberries
The two gooseberry bushes in the front garden have not had a good life so far, they seem to suffer from sawfly each year with them stripped within seconds it seems. We kind of lost heart a bit with these and so they have been mostly neglected and lost in the summer flowers each year. [...]
27 Feb
Pruning the Apple Tree
On the local Freecycle cafe list a post from Leslie appeared offering his services to not just prune people’s apple trees but show the, teach them and generally discuss the ideas behind pruning and growing the trees. It is not just all about the fruit but instead there is no reason why a properly looked [...]
