What will Winter bring???

Last year everyone was very excited with the snowy weather...will we get another snow day for sledging, hot chocolate and icy toes??

This view is from the top of the house!

A bit of old fashioned class in my garden!

Not mine! just for a day or two...

BIG Autumn tidy up, hoping everything will be fine in the storm tonight!

Lovely little plant I bought on the Gloucester road!

Bees!

A few bees and thankfully no wasps....

a fe  slugs that got rehoused!

Apples are growing!

Carrots, peppers and tomatoes too...

Water boatmen!

Stony ground giving way to wild flowers!

I really didn't think anything would grow here!

Sunflowers!

Grandad Geoff started some sun flowers for Maisie and Harry and they are growing daily!

The race is on!

As is the fight for the best place in the hammock! 

Yummy!

The strawberries are lush!

Herbs growing wildly!

Growing nicely! 

I saw the picture I posted in March and was shocked at how much everything has grown. 

WOW! No wonder a story was written about a giant beanstalk reaching the sky!

Early days....

growing slowly!

Pond looking good!

The rabbits are helping too!

'Green' lawn mowers!

ummmm smells like chocolate!

In the Spring these clematis opened out (not technically mine, they come from next door!!!) and they smell of chocolate! They really do!!!

My wall...

Ages ago I mentioned that I was going to paint my ugly wall....Well I cleaned it a bit...

That was a few months ago now....and it still looks the same:(

Clearing the stones after the rain!

Each time it rains the water drops off the roof and a row of stones are left!

I then sift the soil to remove the biggest stones.....

How long will it last??

My plant full of interesting bugs!

My first project

 So, I do a lot of washing up, here is my view...

The wall at the back on the left is UGLY. I plan to use paint, pots, baskets, boxes and 'objects' to cheer it up. I was thinking a Royal Blue background....

But first I have to clean up the wall....hopefully both sun and time will come to me soon!

The beginning! March 2013

So, Hi!

I have decided to do a monthly update of my garden for the next few months or so to keep an ongoing record of what I manage to do.

I live in Bristol, UK with my husband and two kids. We have had the garden for two years. In the first year all I seemed to do was pull stuff up and clear up! I am very lucky as I have two amazing Parents-in -law who have planted, added a pond and dug up the most enormous ivy root you have ever seen.

This year I plan to do some of the fun stuff too. My gardening skills are very low and I am 'learning on the job..'

So today was the first time the weather was warm enough and the rain stopped for about 3 hours so I started weeding...sadly I didn't take any 'before' photos. I found loads of baby slugs and I have a massive wild garlic/ chive problem I got the lot into my green bin! This is what my garden looks like now!

I have lots of ideas for what i want it to look like, but if you have any suggestions, particularly for types of plants, let me know!