Can I join in please?
Lots of lovely gardens and lots of hard work going on!
This is my fav spot at the moment - we replaced the playhouse with a ‘grown up’ shed last year but a kept the front and it’s now part of the fence behind 
the pear tree
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Wendy, getting so jealous of all these fruit trees!
What have you growing in the foreground, can’t quite make it out, could it be Iris?
We have inherited a spindly cherry here which is full of blossom, but can imagine the birds will have the lot before we get to taste any fruit. Will have to get Gary out there waving his arms at them 
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Hi Heather (?) yes they’re stinking iris which are lovely in the winter with their berries but are fairly awful otherwise so I have been quite brutal with them this weekend !
Looks great
Lol is that their official name Wendy 
Yes Jax - and they got off lightly!
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Found some more photo’s of a previous garden we re-designed.
The big leaf just in shot was a Gunnera, always wanted one but knew they could grow to mammoth proportions so we planted it in a half barrel. It still grew quite large but looked wonderful - and did a very good job of hiding a drain cover.
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lovely gardens. I love the use of the bricks braking up the pavements.
I never got any gardening done as I had to go visit family. I’ve come home shattered feeling ill and loaded with fabrics and mystery books left to me by my beloved mil.
It rained dreadfully here so all my pots in trays on my vertical frame were draining in water. I’ve just empty the rain water into a large bucket. I will re use the rain water when it’s required. As my water butts are not been re hooked up as yet even though we have the guttering on the Conservatory now.
Bit disappointed as the Sweetcorn in the Veggie garden still hasn’t germinated but I did see a potato growing there instead.
Little Ram, your garden is lovely!
Thank you Margaret 
This one is our last but one garden, we do tend to put in a lot of wooden structures for plants to scramble up and love the garden paint colours they sell. The soil in this garden was perfect for growing delphiniums, such beautiful, statuesque plants with fabulous colours and we didn’t have many slugs to much on them!
Once our new garden here starts getting going we’ll take some photo’s an upload them here.
It must be very hard to leave behind such a lovely garden that you’ve put so much work into. I’ve lived with mine almost all my life and can’t imagine leaving it! Good luck with the new garden.
Wow such lovely gardens! All that garlic looks wonderful from your France days Heather. I love a bit of gardening too, though mainly for food. We’ve a small veg patch and a great herb bed in the back. The other half has started planting fruit bushes fown the side though I think it’ll be a few years before we get berries. I’m trying sweetcorn again this year, fingers crossed they grow big and tall… Will put up some photos soon. Glad to see so many keen gardeners here :smile :
Aw some gorgeous gardens! We live in a flat unfortunately (with 2 crazy kitties) but I’ve an allotment in which I run my ‘experiments’ (i.e. trying not to kill plants!!). I’ve got a few fruit trees, blueberry bushes, and am trying out quinoa and jerusalem artichokes this year.
Is anyone else into permaculture? I’ve been reading about it and done a short course. Am really just trying to improve my (rather poor) plant knowledge at the moment tho!
Ohhh I have Jerusalem Artichokes but I only grow them for the flowers. I really should dig them up and give away some of the them otherwise next year I’ll be overrun by them 
We keep being overrun with strawberries. In fact, just about to nip next door with some excess plants for their garden. That is what I love about gardening. It brings people together!
So wish we lived nearer Jacqueline, we would love some strawberry plants for our new veggie garden
I wish I lived nearer too Jacqueline, I could do with some strawberries!
Me too I’ve no strawberries any more
If they would survive the postal system, I would gladly send you all some! They are really flavoursome and a great size too. Sadly, I don’t know the variety, so I can’t pass on the name. We inherited the plants with our allotment and when we got the patch, the bed of strawberries was 3m long and 2m wide and so overgrown! We must have re-potted 100’s of them.
Oh, I forgot, we are overrun with rhubarb too - would pass some on if I could to you all.
Rhubarb too!
Gary makes a mean rhubarb wine