My garden 26/3/04

[Mrs Ava]

Okay, some spring shots of my garden.  It isn't very big, and it has to be practical for 2 children, stepdaughter and various chums.  Also, lots of perennials which are only just waking up.

This is the view from our deck immediately outside our conservatory.  Painted rather brightly, my choice last year...hmmm....may well change this year.


View down our garden from the willow, which is about 2 3rds up our garden.


Woodland patch just beyond the willow.

Couple of general shots - exciting stuff huh!?!


My strawb patch - new this year.

My pink dicentra bursting through, already has flower buds on it.  I also have a white one, which I think is more beautiful.

And anyone wanna candy some angelica?

[Mrs Ava]

[eileen]

Hi EJ just had a look at your piccies. Your garden is lovely. :D

My dicentras are still at the red, sprouting stage. I have three  - 2 pink and 1 white and I, like you, prefer the white one. I have a strawberry patch at the back of my garden but they are alpine strawberries. Lovely, sweet tasting fruit but very small. I have conventional ones nearer the house in the hope the birds will go for the smaller ones!

Your woodland patch looks very similar to what I have here but yours is weed free!  :-[

I think your decking looks great that colour. It sets the planting off beautifully. It's almost the same colour as some poppies that I got from a friend.

How do you and Ava find the time to keep it so neat and tidy, look after the children and the lottie too? Can I have some of your energy please I could certainly do with it up here.

Eileen.

[jammyd]

Looking good, Eileen! I'm just a little jealous ;)

jams

[aquilegia]

lovely! it's so exciting seeing everything popping up and shooting now, isn't it. I can't wait to see what yours looks like later in the season.

[Moggle]

Looks great EJ  :)

[eileen]

Yeah Jammyd I'd love my garden to be as neat as EJ's.  :'(

Mine is ever so slightly more wild and woolly!  ::)

Do you think she'd let me adopt her??????  8)

Eileen.

[kenkew]

EJ; Your garden is terrible!
No weeds, no litter, everything in it's place, no dog tracks, level cut grass, no mud bumps where the mower has bottomed, no soil on the path and not a slug trail in sight. Come on now, promise to buck up.



OK! Before I'm excommunicated from A4A, I admit it looks really good. One question, tho. How do we know it's your garden....eh?

[Mrs Ava]

hehehe KK.  Look closely!  My lawn is knackered thanks to the kids and the fact that it is waterlogged for 6 months of the year.  Big patches of moss and muddy patches where the mower has buried itself!  The flower beds lack colour at the moment as I have loads of perennial struggling to come through the puddles, give it a month and things will look very different.  I only took pics from certain areas so you couldn't see the piles of kids garden toys and the broken fence panels.  My garden isn't as neat and tailored as some, but I like that kinda cottagey jungly overgrown feel, and that is what it is like in mid summer.

[Mrs Ava]

aha, how do you know it's mine......there are other pics further back in the gallery, and I promise to bore you all rigid with more shots as things grow, and me, ava or the kids are bound to appear from time to time.

I am thinking of opening it when our village has an open garden day, but I don't think it is good enough, plus I don't know all the 'proper' names for the plants.  :-\  

[kenkew]

Most other people don't either! Just point to one and gabble something. When you get stuck just say, 'And that's a red one, that's a yellow one...Oh! And that one is a tall one.' Easy!

[Garden Manager]

Nice garden EJ. Like the 'Woodland area' particularly. What sort of things have you got planted there? I cant quite see. (its just I am starting a similar area in mine and am looking for planting ideas  :D)

[busy_lizzie]

EJ, Your garden is lovely!  :D  Think you should definitely open it up to the public - I would love to come and see it.  It is certainly better than mine at the moment - plants are perking up a bit but the gardens still looking a bit drab and untidy.  I always have a problem deciding which needs my attention most, the garden or the allotment.  At this time of year the allotment seems to always have first call.  Wish I was better organised!  :) busy_lizzie

[Mrs Ava]

It is shaded by the willow and a robinia tree.  There is also a small apple tree at the back of the patch.  I have bluebells, little iris, aquiligias, ferns, primulas, grasses, foxgloves, ajuga, pulmanaria and lots of shade loving ground covering things, names of which...hmmm...get book out.....  I am hoping eventually to have masses of different ferns in there, but I am mean and won't buy  things and so  these are coming but very slowely.  Anyone splitting any....I'm ya girl!  ;D

[Gardengirl]

Lovely pics of your garden EJ.  Your Dicentra is well advanced, mine is only a few inches through at the moment.  I too have two pink and one white.