Garden Projects and DIY

What an immaculate workshop Colin!

Eden, gardening can be hard graft at times,and often followed by disasters. I'm sure most of us have experienced something like this. Oh! if only we could snap our fingers and wowee! look at that garden. Truthfully we all want to break eggs with a big stick. Gardening is a pleasure, a dream...

Thank you for your comments Claire and Caroline. I think I may have found someone who is very local.

I did ask a few people for ideas Redwing, most of the suggestions were far too complicated for a DIY incompetent such as myself. I always try to go for the simplest solution when tackling these jobs and yours fitted the bill nicely. Pass on my thanks to Mr Redwing. I think you may be right...

Thank you folks. I like the Jasmine and Clematis idea. I already have 8 bamboos and 3 Wisteria. I had Trachelospermum in a previous property and really liked it. Had completely forgotten about it so it's looking like fav. Thanks again Verdun and Doghouse.

Hi all Sorry not been posting, Project X finished and just had bumper crop of veggies over last few months. Project Y (top of the garden) started back in February 2019 but couldn’t get my digger driver available until April so had time to put up a new fence, make new gates, plant Laurel...

Looking good @Pushkin , love it!!

You're welcome.

I did a raised pond which backed on to a brick shed. so to stop any damp on the bricks I used a thick plastic sheet from the top of the pond well down passed the damp proof course.I used breeze blocks the heavy type to build the end wall and secured the pond liner under the coping stone, same...

I agree with Graham B - if it were me, I wouldn't go down the lawn route .I see that your neighbour has a small border at the back of their lawn - I'd tend to have the whole area as a border. I'm not a great fan of lawns in a garden - they do have their place - but IMHO flower beds are far...

Hi,Think for such a long narrow garden we would look at doing something on the lines of the layouts below where you create several different but linked areas, each one being an area of you can enjoy on its own.Of course it all depends on what you want and if its more a family garden that...

The property is semi detached and the gutters all end on my neighbourd house that is the same for every house in the close,The property was built about 1990 i thinkMy bathroom is upstairs to the side and kitchen at the front

Shame it's not what they used as a flame retardant in the later versions of Sodium Chlorate weedkiller, it might have been a really nasty effective cocktail of chemicals.

Calculations with correct answers, but containing counterbalancing errors should always be corrected.

is it THAT bad then ????

It would depend on which ones you choose to go with. From the ones I mentioned the Pulmonaria and Brunnera I have are still just about 30cm by 30cm after a couple of years in the ground. The Ajuga stays small but spreads when it produces new plants so one small plant covering about 20cm by 20cm...

With respect OCD and plants are not a good combination, nature has it's own idea on how it wants to grow. Yes, you could prune most plants to keep them in the shape you would like but it's not a natural look. With any plants you will only get symmetry by the way you plant, an example is by...

Oh, and whilst clearing 4" of topsoil to put down mulch was the right thing to do, I didn't think enough about just how much topsoil that amounted to. Oops. It was good exercise - don't need another workout tonight!

Thanks for the advice.Here's how it's going so far.The old floor boards and some shelves (soft wood) have made a bed 35cm deep by 178cm long and 109cm wide. These measurements are only due to optimising the use of scrap wood rather than a design specification.Corner posts are from a ...

Kristen, that's my reason for planning to put in some decent footings. Lap joints at the corners should also tend to hold everything together, I hope, so the structure generally keeps itself together. We'll see whether it follows the theory!