Tonight

It was a lovely evening tonight, so we had to spend our time in the garden tonight.

My husband mowed the lawn and tidied around and the garden looks better, considering it is still in work in progress mode. Whilst he did that, I planted two hanging baskets for the back garden - a mixture of surfinas, nemesia, ipomea and some other foliage (name escapes me at the moment) and two basket for the front of my house that are just surfinas. I also put together a pot that I saw in Gardeners World Magazine in March. I ordered all the plants, grew them on and tonight the pot was put together - Dahlias (Matilda Huston), Brizia Media Golden Bee', Argyranthemum 'Reflection Pink' and Argyranthemum 'Madeira Crested Merlot'. This should look lovely on my decking.

From This:

To This:

French Beans in Pots

Tomatoes and Courgettes

Decking!

Tuesday Evening

The weather was perfect for planting, so last night I ventured in to my little back garden and took out my plants and got on with planting. The plants were desperate to go outside. Some of the tomato plants even had tomatoes on them already!

As my back garden is in limbo and the raised beds aren't in place yet, out came four grow bags. I use ring cultures to give the tomato plants more room. Now I have 9 tomato plants. I also planted 5 courgette plants out - this may be too many, as we could barely cope with courgettes from 2 plants last year. French beans were also planted out. Now I need to buy some netting for them - I don't trust the local birds!

I already have potatoes growing in bags and strawberries in pots.Not many things but I love the fact that I am growing my own produce. I'm always impressed with things that I've grown and of course they always taste wonderful.

A wonderful thing also happened. My husband finished the decking. First part of new garden is complete.

Photos from my iPhone to follow.

Rain

All my plans to get in to the garden to finish the decking and plant out my tomato, courgette, french bean plants as well as planting up my hanging baskets have been scuppered by the rain. It is raining like it is autumn and not the summer! Never mind there is still the F1 to watch.

I Went To The Chelsea Flower Show 2010 For Some Ideas

I went to the 2010 Chelsea Flower Show and despite the rain I thoroughly enjoyed. This is the third year that I have visited and as I am redesigning my back garden this year, I was looking from some extra inspiration. Here are some photos that are inspiring me for my back garden.

A Beautiful Flower Drift from L'Occitane:

The Beautiful M &G Garden, that I could just see myself sitting in:

Laurent Perrier Garden:

The Daily Telegraph Garden - Best in Show:

Cancer Research Garden - I want Silver Birch tress in my garden and the under planting is gorgeous:

A pretty planting combination: