Saturday 24 March 2012

I need Alan Titchmarsh...

Our garden is a dreadful sight I'm ashamed to admit.

When this house was built it was used as the show house and the garden had a water feature, a couple of trees and some lovely bushes all placed to advantage, then someone moved in and it was barely looked at again other than to get the grass cut. When we moved in almost 2 years ago we didn't know there was a water feature because the weeds had grown over the protective sheeting that had been laid to discourage weeds and everything was so overgrown it was a complete mess.

Last year we tried to tidy it up and we succeeded a little bit, mostly by cutting everything back, cutting down a few of the trees because they were getting a little dangerous and by discovering the abandoned water feature (not sure how they worked it because there's no outside tap or water connection to be found anywhere) and other than a few planted pots and hanging baskets etc nothing else was done.

This year however, with our girls now being 2 and loving the outdoors, it is imperative we provide a safe and secure garden for them to play in and it's a little beyond me how on earth I'm going to manage it!

Must take pics and let you all see what I have to work with and fingers crossed my Alan Titchmarsh (aka my Mummy) will help me work miracles.


4 comments:

  1. I know how you feel huni i was in the same place 3 and half years ago, our garden was designed for the much older genration hence no grass just shingle and concrete. over the last 3 years we have been slowly regenerating it so it is more child frendly starting with grass as a blank canvas and just giving everything a brutal pruning back then work from there I added a veggie patch to mine which my eldest loves to help water, weed and most of all eat what ever may grow first.

    your get there, it may just take a little time x x x

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    1. Love to hear of others who've won their garden battles, it gives me hope that we could make something of ours too. Completely jealous of your veggie patch, can't wait to have one ourselves, we grew up with our own veg and I can't wait for our girls to have that as well xXx

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  2. Sounds like you have made more effort with yours than we have with ours. We have grass and...grass! That's it! This weather does encourage you to do more though doesn't it?x

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    1. The weather definitely makes you want to do more outside and long may it last! with the sun shining it doesn't make it seem like a lot of hard work xXx

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