ᐅ Garden Photos Chat Corner

Very little. I hope the plants have grown enough.

Winniefred schrieb:

Bamboo only with a very effective root barrier

Fargus does not require a root barrier

Müllerin schrieb:

or needs to be pruned back over winter (clematis).

There are clematis varieties that do not need pruning. They regrow from the long “stems.” I have one too—a blue-flowering one on the west side, but I don’t know its name.

hemali2003 schrieb:

What kind of “design elements” do you have in the garden?

A greenhouse, a reinforcement mesh for climbing support, a rusty heart on a rod in the shrubs, a birdbath there for the birds, several large stones with faces (sculptures). Nothing colorful.
At the moment, small stones hang on the fruit trees to prevent the branches from growing upwards.

You have beautiful gardens! I think you never really finish completely.
We are still at the very beginning of our garden design.
So far, my husband has done the groundwork. That includes the drainage around the house with connections to the sewage system and a soakaway.
He has set L-shaped concrete blocks along the neighbor’s boundary, installed a fence, and built a 9-meter (30 feet) wall that will be faced with natural stone veneer. Tomorrow, the bottom row of stones for the chicken coop will be laid. This will also be faced with natural stone veneer.
Besides that, we will have raised garden beds with a natural stone dry wall and a large insect hotel.
The children will of course have a sandbox with a playhouse and mud kitchen.
Here are a few photos from today’s material delivery and our front garden bed, planted with lavender for the bees. The tree trunk will be moved to the back garden to serve as a sandbox boundary.

Thanks in advance! A birdbath and possibly a raised garden bed are also options for me.

I just remembered, we still have a huge metal grid (formerly a staircase railing) and a large metal horse (an important childhood memory) that I will try to incorporate.

And we also have two huge tree slices (willow, so very soft), approximately 120cm (47 inches) and 80cm (31 inches) in diameter, and 20cm (8 inches) thick.

Do you have any ideas for them? I would like to use them long-term, even if I have to varnish them or something...

hemali2003 schrieb:

And we still have two huge tree slices (willow, so very soft), about 120 and 80 cm (47 and 31 inches) in diameter, and 20 cm (8 inches) thick.
Do you have any ideas for them? I’d like to use them long-term, even if I have to varnish them or something...

Cool... varnish them? No, leave them as they are, it’s great deadwood. I’d put one in a sunny flowerbed and the other in a shady spot. That way you can nicely observe the differences in decomposition.

Now that I think about it, I still need moss for the front garden.