My garden

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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

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

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!

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!

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

Beautiful day here..garden is such a joy 🙏

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

Roses just starting after recent rain

Tizliz

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

Yes! Now you’ve mentioned them.

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.

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

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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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Our roses are loving this heat -

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

MiniMoon

We too have a shared access. Vehicles one way, foot passengers another. Our house was built on the car park of a pub so we have no lawn. Locals who know about it use it as a shortcut, but these are few.
My husband has worked wonders with what we have. This is not the best light, but here you go.

If that was a pub car park, your husband has done extremely well.

I love your little pond.

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

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We too have a shared access. Vehicles one way, foot passengers another. Our house was built on the car park of a pub so we have no lawn. Locals who know about it use it as a shortcut, but these are few.
My husband has worked wonders with what we have. This is not the best light, but here you go.

crazyH

3dognight - the yellow roses have pink edges (the photo doesn’t show tgat well) and are called the Charlotte Rose. I inherited the others, from the previous owner- dont know what they’re called. I’m not the world’s cleverest gardener 😂

Yes I zoomed in and had a proper look😂
Are they scented? I’ve got Gertrude Jekyll on the allotment and she has a lovely fragrance.

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?