Friday, 21 May 2010

Garden Update




Hi All!

I hope that everyone is having a lovely week.  We've had amazingly hot weather over the past few days and it promises to be even hotter over the weekend.  I did manage to get out in the garden and put all of my plants and bulbs out.  I took some photos, would you like to see?

First of all, this is what my little greenhouse looked like before I started:



I bought a few plants at the plant fair last weekend, as I mentioned before:


There were 5 Alpines and 2 different types of Nemesia Aromatica (I think!).  The Alpines are now in a low blue pot outside our back door:


I did an awful lot of tidying up - our trellis needed replacing as it had broken in the strong winds.

Before
After

I tidied the borders (you may not be able to notice THAT much of a difference in my pictures, but believe me when I tell you that they look SO MUCH BETTER!)

Before

After

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After



As I said earlier, I also had lots of bulbs to plant, some of which went into pots:


All in all, I'm very pleased with my progress.  All that we need to do now is to mow the lawn in preparation for a barbeque that we're planning for Sunday afternoon as it's my Mother-in-Law's birthday.  It will be the first barbeque we've done since before Freya was born - wish us luck!!!!

I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and that the weather is nice wherever you are.

xxx

Ps.  Is anybody else having problems with Blogger when trying to insert pictures into your post?!!  Each time I try it puts the picture right at the beginning of the post and no matter how much deleting I do, there's still a HUGE gap before my post begins.  :-(

5 comments:

  1. You can see where you've been in your garden. I need to similar this weekend too.

    Have been having the same problem with blogger - have to leave a couple of spaces after the text & then put the photo in - hope this glitch goes soon.

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  2. Gardening is hard work, but you can create a lovely space to sit in and enjoy. I really miss having a garden, especially now that the evenings are warmer.
    Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
    x

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  3. Well done, looks much better. Blogger has been playing up lately.

    Hugs RosieP x

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  4. In the Spring, at the end of the day, one should smell like dirt!
    (And I'll bet you did :)
    Your garden will be so lovely!!
    The work will have been worth it!
    I don't know what to tell you about the glitch?
    Sorry!
    I just wanted to let you know that I got your entries for the birdcage, and if you win it, we will figure out how to get it to you!
    Blessings to you and on your garden!
    ~leslie

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  5. Blogger and photos are my worst enemy.

    The garden looks lovely, I wish I had a garden so much, especially with the weather this weekend! At least I got to look out at the sun through my hospital stay, blue skies make everything seem a little better, I'd have been totally depressed if it had rained the whole time!

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