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This is our garden, everything was rather overgrown when we moved in, Also the height of everything around it stopped the garden from getting a lot of light.






Next doors cats trying to help the start of the tidy.....



This was when I chopped the first confiner down.






My friend pointed out it would have been much quicker if I just used the BBQ at the very start....

After all this we put some borders around the grass, these need re-weeding though.

The back of the house had next doors ivy all over it, spent a good while taking that down.

Think next year I may paint the fences, not sure what we will do after that as we are undecided if we are going to stay or move.

I was going to flatten the soil on the right and make a flower bed, but seems pointless since we have 3 cats in our garden the whole time.
 
I have a small house Don't have a garden in it. But I got many new ideas here. I am planning to get some small plants for indoor use. I believe they increase the beauty of the house and we can take better care of them.
 
Well the GFs rents were down this weekend so we did a little work in the garden.. some before and after photos where I remembered and compared to the ones a few pages back

From bed Room Before



From bed Room After


Up the Garden from the house Before




Up the Garden from the house After


From the bushes part way up before



From the bushes part way up after


All trimmed back



This was covered in massively over grown IVY


There was a Tree here


and down the Garden Before


and down the Garden Before
 
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No offence but pretty much every before photo looks better than the after photo imo!
Personally I would have spent the time improving the lawn and given the bush's a very mild trim back as they looked fine before :confused:

But hey each to their own, I just prefer gardens to be green and full of tree's and plants :p
 
^^ It'll probably look better next spring/summer when it all gets fresh leaves and bushes out slightly.

Some very nice gardens in this thread. Mines just a thin strip, sadly. the front is probably bigger than the back, but its overlooked due to the tiny picket fence. i'm toying with the idea of growing a hedge and maybe setting an arch into it for the gate. i'd rather see a hedge out of the front window than the houses across the street and people/cars constantly going past.
 
This is mine. I bought the biggest house with the biggest garden I could find (for the money), not realising how much work it would be, especially as I had to gut the house first.


We moved in (and had no inside toilet or bathroom) two weeks before the mrs gave birth- not recommended. The house is about 50% done now.

The plan is to start work on the garden in the new year- the trees at the back will be cut back and i'm putting in some fruit and nut trees.
 
We were very lucky that the previous owner was well into his gardening and planted it so that we've always got something in flower.

The barren bit about half way up is a rose garden which has been there about 50 years- amazingly it survived the lack of attention it got this year.

I've got some more garden at the side, behind the (out of shot) 100 foot high lilac hedge on the left.

Sometimes big isn't always better...
 
I'd like something like that as it's nice sitting at the top of the garden in the evening watching the birds. I'll have to save my pennies.

We get lots of birds, like this buzzard that raided our bird feeder for bacon scraps:
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
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No offence but pretty much every before photo looks better than the after photo imo!
Personally I would have spent the time improving the lawn and given the bush's a very mild trim back as they looked fine before :confused:

But hey each to their own, I just prefer gardens to be green and full of tree's and plants :p
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Just seen this.... The problem is that everything was majorly over grown to the point where we lost around 3-4 ft in width to the garden so we have taken the approach of cutting everything back and starting again. As for sorting the lawn out, Without cutting down the tree and the bushes it was impossible to do due to the tree dropping needles across the entire lawn. Its actually all moss and horrible in the places where we actually have grass.

Everything will be replanted and tended properly instead of being left to grow wild.
 
Winter visitors. There's 3 of them that come every year.
Eat the apples, then they move onto the plants.

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Some truly beautiful gardens here guys!

Moving into the new house at the end of the month, has a pretty narrow but long rear garden, looking forward to getting stuck in.
Here's a little pic.
 
Woogie said:
Looks nice :) wish I had time to touch my garden :( starting to get over grown and worried there will be no nice weekends left with which to chop it down.
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maccapacca said:
Have you been given x amount of months to live? Or are you made of sugar and will dissolve in the rain?

The nice weekends are for enjoying the garden, buy some Wellington boots and a decent jacket and get out there rain or shine :)
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I went into my totally overgrown garden a couple of years ago in middle of summer to start chopping it down. Then I saw a huuge spider sat in the middle of a web between the branches of the young oak tree. Bigger than any spider I ever saw before. Needless to say I backed off pretty sharpish and never entered the garden the rest of the summer. :(
 
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