I've just recently laid my entire back yard in concrete. Makes for easy maintenance

The lawn was dead from all the cars parked on it so i figured why not concrete it.

it all slopes ever so slightly into the centre where there's a stormwater drain. A lot like a shower tray

   sacrilegious talk in this thread... concreting the back yard!!     Get to the man cave with THAT kind of talk

  


and concrete isn't THAT easy to look after, I thought that it was, once upon a time.  so we made a big concrete pad for the kids to play on (and cars to park on etc etc)  The other day I swept off so much tree debris and concrete grit and dirt and dust etc was only a couple of months worth... and then there is the green it grows too.


The mystery of my day though is how on earth I got a burnt cleavage err frontage when most of the time I was bending over weeding   

burnt

my wee garden - I don't think it big enough even for Peter Rabbit to hide in 

I dug a new garden alongside the path, as the mower couldn't get into the corner to trim the grass


the other end of it


what it looks like from the footpath, and of course its only just planted with seedlings so they have a lot of growing to do


the other side of the path, which badly needs developing, just has some lavender bushes growing (they were put there temporarily about 5 years ago 


the only real bit of garden that was made when we bought the house, I've added plants, and once the house is painted am wanting to add some trellis for the climbing roses there, and put in a wisteria



my sweetpeas that didn't die over winter, am training them up the trellis which is an archway




 

classic!!   


hey Raven, it does look good.     and sweetpeas smell so yummy too

mmmm yes and jasmine, love that as well

great stuff Raven   Love the sweet peas

 

speak up!!!

 

purple flowers look like aquilegia - granny bonnets

I know that I know the salmony ones but can't remember you could take the flowers (or pics) to a garden shop to identify 

looking great 

aquilegia, chives, fuschia 











I have been out digging up more ground    I need to put concrete mowing strips around all my gardens cause its friggen annoying having grass sneak up along the edges

  how come small jobs always become big plans? 

how do you stop Blase from stomping over your gardens if you don't have fencing?

lucky you to have a dog that learns quickly  I think mine do it deliberately, come to think of it

Purple ones are what Raven said they were.
Salmon one is alstromeria
Left side of rosemary might be perennial lobelia (does it have a red flower - or blue?) If it is a blue flower - then it is something else but can't remember its name! 
Right side of rosemary might be a coprosma

not sure if they are pink! they look like dead flower heads. My eyes aren't what they used to be Raven - too many night prowls I guess!!


 

There aren't any flower's or flower heads on that bronze bush. You're seeing new leaf growth   

I bought a hebe, now have to figure where to put it 


does anyone else feel sorry for all the sad plants that get chucked into the sales bins, and want to take them home? 

no  

  apology accepted - just!    Might be a penstemon if the flowers are pink.

nope - coprosma have leaves that can be up to 1 - 1 1/2 long. Depends on variety - tend to be the coloured ones. Corokia have small leaves tho' - always!   
And yes - I have a plant from the rescue bin just waiting ever so patiently to go into its special little place in my garden!!   

 

   great! progress pics are a must! 

Got any chicken wire and a few long sticks/branches? Thread the sticks through the wire and poke em in the ground around your garden. And there you have a makeshift and reusable fence 

   I recognise that attitude.

but good score Raven - and veges are good - you can eat them      ...honest you can 




 (had forgotten this thread)

I just picked 2 big heads of broccoli and another bowl full of strawberries and my first raspberry

 

I'll share these strawberries.