MY AWARD WINNING GARDEN : August 2008

Another successful year on my garden, resulted in 3 "Gold Medals" in the local Garden Competition that is run in our town each summer. The Front Garden, Rear Garden and the Rear Wildlife Pond....all gained "Golds". My biggest achievement since starting doing that competition years ago. So nice to see reward for the hard work that goes into it all.

I have added above a few photos showing this Summers displays on my garden.

To see a more detailed view of my garden, please view the VIDEO BELOW of a "Garden Tour" I added, which shows more aspects of my garden this Summer. It lasts around 6 minutes.

My Garden Tour: VIDEO FILM- July 2008

EARLY SUMMER IN MY GARDEN. 2008

After a very busy Spring of preparing the garden for planting. I've now planted all my summer bedding plants again. Quite a large operation really, as it took the whole Three days of the Bank holiday weekend to do it all. But of course it will all be worth the hard work, when it is all in full bloom. The photos above show the shrubs and Climbers that are currently in flower at the end of May 2008. I've altered my garden slightly this spring, by removing a large Ceanothus (Californian Lilac) which had got too large and blocked part the view from the patio.

One of the photos above now shows what it looks like, from the patio to the centre of the garden.

The clematis climbers are just starting to come out now and everything is growing well.

This year i've also done a few Tomato plants in my Greenhouse , together with Peppers and an Aubergine plant. So we will see how they go on. There are Three types of Tomato variety in there. Outside i've done some Runner beans and Dwarf Beans as well, with also some new Blueberry bushes and Gooseberry bushes. These are next to the new Apple tree i planted, to replace the Californian Lilac shrub. I will show more of these in my next set of photos, as the garden develops during the Summer.

MY GARDEN IN SUMMER 2007

Here are a few Photos I took In Summer 2007 of my Garden In Full Bloom.
Plenty of colour and things grew very well Indeed, due to the rainfall that summer, which went on throughout most of the summer months. April was probably the best month In 2007!.
Though we did enjoy an Indian Summer In September into October.
So the flowers lasted well as a result of the rain. I don't remember using my watering can too much, other for the Hanging baskets & containers.
The bottom photo shows my Circular patio with the containers on it , looking very good Indeed.
You can view the patio in construction on an earlier posting on here.
So all in all, the garden was quite a success In 2007.