New garden new start!
HappyGrower
Posts: 15
Just wanted to make a brief intro and say hello, I'm sure I'll be around a lot in future having just taken on a new garden which is already amazing but will need a lot of work! No doubt I'll be back for tips and advice and will share progress as I go.
Briefly... Like many others over the last couple of years I'm now working from home 99% of the time with a monthly trip to London. So why not move north to be closer to the family and get twice the house for half the money?!
The new place in North Wales has an amazing plot which previous owners had a professional design drawn up for. They did all the hard work, landscaping and I reckon about half the designed planting scheme. Then unfortunately their circumstances changed and they had to sell up. So the garden went a bit wild although currently the bees and birds are loving it! (The rabbits too until my dog arrived!)
What we have;
Massive semi-wild lawn - will keep but tidy in places. Full of clover
Small fruit orchard - apples, pears, cherries. - pruning required.
A strip of approx 30 metres x 4 metres top terrace - wildflowers, fox gloves everywhere!
middle terrace - rough lawn and various berries.
Front sloped "rock garden" looks perfect for alpines. - overgrown with climbing rose.
Ferns going well in many shady spots!
Semi formal bed - currently over run with buttercup, geranium, aquilegia, cow parsley.
Plan for this year is just to keep on top of things, remove a million self seeded ash trees and observe the seasons. Hopefully by the end of the year will have completed a few 'small projects'.
Fence and gate off future veg plot (dog proof)
Remove turf dig over, build raised beds and manure over winter (riding school next door!)
build compost heaps.
Dig wildlife pond.
plant native hedging along top terrace.
Lay base and build greenhouse.
So not much really! I'm sure there's also a few bits that need doing in the new house but that can wait
Look forward to 'meeting' you all and doing my bit where I can.
Briefly... Like many others over the last couple of years I'm now working from home 99% of the time with a monthly trip to London. So why not move north to be closer to the family and get twice the house for half the money?!
The new place in North Wales has an amazing plot which previous owners had a professional design drawn up for. They did all the hard work, landscaping and I reckon about half the designed planting scheme. Then unfortunately their circumstances changed and they had to sell up. So the garden went a bit wild although currently the bees and birds are loving it! (The rabbits too until my dog arrived!)
What we have;
Massive semi-wild lawn - will keep but tidy in places. Full of clover
Small fruit orchard - apples, pears, cherries. - pruning required.
A strip of approx 30 metres x 4 metres top terrace - wildflowers, fox gloves everywhere!
middle terrace - rough lawn and various berries.
Front sloped "rock garden" looks perfect for alpines. - overgrown with climbing rose.
Ferns going well in many shady spots!
Semi formal bed - currently over run with buttercup, geranium, aquilegia, cow parsley.
Plan for this year is just to keep on top of things, remove a million self seeded ash trees and observe the seasons. Hopefully by the end of the year will have completed a few 'small projects'.
Fence and gate off future veg plot (dog proof)
Remove turf dig over, build raised beds and manure over winter (riding school next door!)
build compost heaps.
Dig wildlife pond.
plant native hedging along top terrace.
Lay base and build greenhouse.
So not much really! I'm sure there's also a few bits that need doing in the new house but that can wait
Look forward to 'meeting' you all and doing my bit where I can.
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it would be lovely to see some photos.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
What's general best practice around here for an ongoing 'Garden Diary'? A single ongoing thread or separate posts?
Have you done gardening before? It sounds idyllic, I hope you enjoy making it your own. Feel free to come here and ask questions.
Annoyingly my new office looks lout across the garden so I'm getting zero work done, watching the birds and plotting my moves for the weekend!
Idyllic is spot on! Apart from a bit of farm traffic the road is so quiet! Only been here 2 weeks but on the few dry evenings there have been sitting outside watching the sunset with wine in hand is heavenly!
Thanks.