how beautiful!

only since past year I'm trying to change a meadow to a garden
the bushes and trees I did plant are still small and young

hopefully one day it will be settled and grow and bloom like in your garden

WOW Malpeki, thats quite an undertaking, look forward to see your photos.

My friend tells me it is called Amalanchia, hope this is correct.

oh my, Darcy Boy, I really have to laugh now

as for sure, it never will get as beautiful and groomed like yours

as firstly, I haven't a green thumb
secondly no idea about anything
thirdly I'm very limited of using time for (as by my job as a long distance driver, I'm only at home at weekends and my OH is farmer, so even if he would share my joy at (what he isn't ), he also wouldn't have time for )
so it will get quite a "wild garden"
even if the ground is just about only 100 <-? not sure m²

but for that reason, I chose only to plant wild bushes, which wont will need alot of grooming and right those, which are growing around my area, as they will be used that climate and ground as well
so I got 2 bushes common seabuckthorn (male and female), 2 hollies (also male and female), wild lilac, one sloe and one whitethorn, one bush/tree is called "copper-rock-pear" and another is a chokeberry

I got some wild baby spruces of a companies "yard" at work, where now is all bulldozed and cemented
so hopefully I could rescue some of them and they will grow
somewhere else I got some common spindles

the only ornamental trees and shrubs are thuja "Brabant", for a natural fence around a part of the garden, 2 hibiscus, one redthorn, a "odour-jasmin", some beautiful rambler roses and my beloved, still little tree of a red blooming chestnut

ohhh... and I still did dig out some of those lovely wild roses at the edge of a forest, still really tiny but they did survive the strong, long winter

...loads of ivy I also put in the ground everywhere, just love ivy

still some more stuff...

but you might can imagine, it's not getting a garden, it's getting a jungle!!!

...still forgot three bushes of buddleia, where I hope they will attract loads of butterfies in summer, like all the wild berries and fruits of those wild bushes, the birds in autumn and winter

I,m glad you laughed.

There are many different types of gardens, all lovely in their own way. The main thing is to enjoy yours.

We are hit & miss gardeners, but always enjoy our garden which could easy become a jungle as every time I go to get plants I think of our present garden as being the same size as are last one when in fact it is about 1/6th the size.

ENJOY.

Forgot to QUOTE in my last post. (You are not the only one who is senile).

It's lovely.

Beautiful Yvonne my Crocosmia never looks like that ..

WHAAAT???!!!???

me and senile???!!!???


oops, am I ?


guess I forgot about