My garden

MerylStreep

Something different.
My little garden on the houseboat I lived on.

That’s an amazing view. What a setting to sit and have a glass of wine!

Fleurpepper your description of your garden and the wildlife reminded me of the pictures in one of the traditional Ladybird books from my childhood 😊

3dognight
It was glorious. It was on a salt marsh in Essex. RSPB land so totally unspoilt.
Here's another view from ( what was) my garden in Bulgaria.

MrsThatcher

Fleurpepper

Oh yes, a constant joy. This old Vicarage has a great cottage garden, and is full of wildlife. Been sitting out on the swing watching the house martins and swallows flying in and out of their little window into the barn where they nest. Swifts are going crazy at the back of the house, with the redstarts. Dragonflies are making a racket above the pond, which is full of tadpoles and newts. Sparrows going crazy with all the feeding. And since April, flowers come and go constantly, a different show every other week. And our meadow is full of wildflowers too- with red kites, buzzards, kestrels flying over the hay fields being cut right now. The smell of hay drying in the sun is just wonderful.

At night, I sit at the back watching the many types of bats swopping over the pond and the meadow, and watch the long eared owl babies fluttering from tree to tree, calling incessantly for parents to feed them.

A never ending joy.

Sounds divine. Can we see a picture?

It would need quite a few, but I am sorry, no more photos on GN.

Mine’s a bit ordinary, but plenty of birds and I’ve 2 hedgehogs, an occasional rabbit and a grey squirrel I named Hazel.

This is ours complete with dirty slabs. We do clean them periodically. The willow you can see hangs over the canal and you can see the top of a canal bridge.

Just to add, that's an oldish picture. We now have a clematis growing over the archway which looks pretty.

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Our roses are loving this heat -

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We have two big clumps of honeysuckle in the garden hedges and this year they’ve gone mad! The smell is wonderful, especially at night when we’re eating outside. The bees love the honeysuckle and the roses too.

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I’m finding the heat too much, but the lavender loves it! Clematis coping too.

Staceyann

Fleurpepper

Oh yes, a constant joy. This old Vicarage has a great cottage garden, and is full of wildlife. Been sitting out on the swing watching the house martins and swallows flying in and out of their little window into the barn where they nest. Swifts are going crazy at the back of the house, with the redstarts. Dragonflies are making a racket above the pond, which is full of tadpoles and newts. Sparrows going crazy with all the feeding. And since April, flowers come and go constantly, a different show every other week. And our meadow is full of wildflowers too- with red kites, buzzards, kestrels flying over the hay fields being cut right now. The smell of hay drying in the sun is just wonderful.

At night, I sit at the back watching the many types of bats swopping over the pond and the meadow, and watch the long eared owl babies fluttering from tree to tree, calling incessantly for parents to feed them.

A never ending joy.

Tadpoles in June?

Oh yes, you will easily get tadpoles in June in the U.K. Tadpoles delay maturation if the weather isn’t right.

Tizliz

Can you see the eyes of the Ent? Only if you are Lord of the rings fan

Yes! Now you’ve mentioned them.

Roses just starting after recent rain

No roses yet, but am hopeful this year as there are buds. Last year was terrible and only had a few late blooms.

Beautiful day here..garden is such a joy 🙏

A part of my garden...absolutely love it...fields at the back so its like it goes on forever...

My garden was looking good until the deer came in some time last night/early morning and ate the tops of the young Aspen trees planted last year and had a go at the fruit trees, devastated!

Such lovely gardens! Mine is a mess at the moment, as we have taken away our old raised fishpond (the liner cracked) and are in the process of decking over the whole patio to cover the rubble patch where it used to be. However it is too hot for DH to do much each day so it is dragging on. The top part of the garden is going wild because I can't get to it!

knspol

My garden was looking good until the deer came in some time last night/early morning and ate the tops of the young Aspen trees planted last year and had a go at the fruit trees, devastated!

We have a 7 ft wall round most of our garden which has, so far, kept the deer out.

So nice to see everyone’s gardens

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I have a small garden and a large back yard on an end terrace in Northumberland. A real suntrap and it's thriving.
We have also just got keys for an allotment so very excited

My garden is quite small, about 5m by 6m but I live in London so I regard myself as lucky to have it. Unfortunately, due to my bad health I cannot maintain it but it is impossible to get the help I need for just a few hours a month.

Before anyone says it, I tried Age UK but they only arrange voluntary gardeners AT A PRICE!!! and I was told that no one will do voluntary work for a garden on a council estate.

I have tried many gardeners but they all want regular weekly work or only do small jobs in the winter.

I have a small tree that was badly overlapping my miserable next door moany neighbours I had to pay £750.00 to get it cut down a bit. The worst of it is I know I was scammed. Then I emailed the local arboracologists I had tried to get the job done and one had the audacity to tell me his minimum charge is £150.00!

I do manage to keep a few pl;ants alive when I can do a bit of pruning and dead heading and an enormous jasmine is about to bloom so all is not lost

Just some of our beauuties

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Mirren, I have one of those 5 tier planters. It will soon disappear beneath the Tidal Wave Petunias. The same will soon happen with my patio pots.

Last year I collected lots of poppy seeds from the village verges and some have popped up in my beds, having survived the harsh winter. I already have my eye on some different coloured ones for this year, although they may not come true.

I got our social housing home 20 years ago from being hidden homeless for just over 2 years after finally fleeing the ex with my youngsters, in 2000.

The house we got was an eviction so you can imagine the state of it. My 2nd husband and I rebuilt it and the garden too. It means everything to me.

The garden was a scrapman dream and a jungle then in 03. Here it is today

You are so lucky to have an Ent Tizliz . Mine fell over last year and now my garden is bare. I'm hoping he found the Ent Wives.