I'm currently dreaming of turning our little garden in to something resembling a beautiful cottage garden, with lots of colour, wild flowers, a little haven for bees, butterflies and birds! I realise the vision in my head may be a little ambitious but it's good to have something to aim for right?!! Anyway I kicked things off over the weekend buy planting an enormous pot of Sweet Peas with some white trailing Lobelia. I have always wanted to have Sweet Peas in the garden so I just had to make them my first purchase. I'm lucky enough to have inherited beautiful pink Peonies with the garden as well as some Rose bushes. I'm concentrating on one side of the garden this year and trying to make the ugly patio pretty with more pots of colourful flowers and then I will tackle the long border down the other side next year I think. Rome wasn't built in a day as they say!
Our front garden also needs a complete transformation at some point. However, we are lucky enough to have a lovely tree on the front lawn. I have no idea what type of tree it is but the blossom we had on it a few weeks ago was the most incredible shade of dark pink, it was stunning! Whatever we do with the front garden, that tree will be staying! The front will probably just get a tidy this year as it's an overgrown mess! There are some nice plants but I think it needs rearranging to make it easier for me to care for. As for the little patch of lawn at the front, it's barely green, more of a brownish colour! I'm considering whether we should get rid of the grass at the front all together in the future and maybe go for some nice gravel with pretty borders of flowers. Any thoughts on this, does anyone have any tips or done something similar?
I'm mostly just enjoying the fact that I can now sit outside with a cup of tea and enjoy my garden in privacy. It's been wonderful over this last week while the weather has been so beautiful! I'm looking forward to seeing it slowly transform over the years!
I would love it if any of you would like to leave me tips on what plants are easy to maintain that will bring some colour and attract the bees. Your advice would be much appreciated, thank you.
Take care and enjoy the Summer. Fingers crossed for a good one!
Tanya x
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