Today's pin is a bit of a boasting one on my part. It is a Jungle vs Garden/Then vs Now.
When we bought the house in 2013 the garden hadn't been touched in about 7years, it had 6ft high weeds, nettles, brambles, dead trees and god knows how much rubbish and junk. This took us a while to clear but we did it. We also started to scatter some grass seed in the hope that it would give us a base to work with. A year on and you could see big changes and the grass took really well, so we just added more seed (79p from home bargains nothing flash or fancy!) and again it took well and filled the patches. Move forward to June 2015 (10days later than we moved in 2years ago but was too wet to take pics and lawn needed cutting) and there is a HUGE difference in the garden!
People we don't even know have stopped us when we've been out there and said how much better it looks and what a difference we have made to it etc. Which is really nice, at least we know our hard work is paying off. There is still along to go until it is fully how I want it, but as they say "Rome wasn't built in a day". Fair enough if I had the money to pay a gardener/landscaper etc then yes it would be done in a very short time, but I don't have this option. Therefore It gets done as and when we have saved a few £ to buy the next materials etc. I still want a fence to go round my decking, the back fence made higher than the 3ft it is and a 1ft trellis fence between us and next door as people from the street can see straight in. I also want to make some planters to go along the back fence to put loads of purple and pretty plants in, but I cant do these until the fence is made higher as I dn't want the plants stolen.
We have the grass pretty much established now, bar a few patches. The fairy garden is in and we are adding to it as we find things. Lil man has a planter for vegetables which are growing well, the composters are working as they should be and we have loads of nice plants and flowers growing, some of which were 50p a plant in a sale as damaged and may not grow! I have part of garden as patio and part as decking (i've got to be the only person that buys a house on a slope and then wants flat patio and decking lol!)
Well here's some of the pics:
yellow rose was 50p damaged plant, red "remembrance" rose was also 50p damaged plant
This pink rose bush was in garden, we have just trailed it along fence. It has sooooo many buds on it.
