you may have noticed .....

[nick the grief]

.... that I have been absent for a few days just recently, well I can announce now I've had a sex change and am now called gloria ...... only joking but I wish I could see your faces

A few montsh ago I posted a before & after piccy of the garden and said it was in need of a make over well
it looked like this



Well afer about 10 years it sort of snuck out of control and ended up like this

so it was time to tidy up as I lost sight of the pond !!! & the pump has packed in so time to replace it methinks. With that in mind Master & Miss grief under expert guidance from the deck chair started a bit of light pruning and here is the result



So now I have a blank canvass to use to please Mrs Grief ... thats a more tricky job

[shirlthegirl43]

Good luck with it all Nick. Was wondering where you had got to - now I know - you were lost in the hedge!!

[Alice]

Wondered where you were Nick. Can see you were busy. Do let's see what you end up with.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi Nick and WELCOME BACK! thought i'd p****d you off with all my questions! Love Bernie

[rustylady]

Welcome back, Nick. Now we need some clues on those teaser piccies you posted. The photos are beautiful, and it is amazing how hard it is to identify a single flower head with no foliage.

[nick the grief]

Hi All,

yes it's been a tad frantic in the grief house. any way I've got another teaser for you but it's real easy peasy

[littleweed]

B----- hell Nick, and I thought I'd got problems on the plot, I'll nip out and find you a compass, or do you prefer to find your way by the stars? Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[pigletwillie]

Blimey Nick, never again will I complain about mine.

[seasprout]

Look.

Wow... you found a Bin and a Rotary washing line..!!

[muckdiva]

Glad you made it out of there NTG, even Gurus can't always get the better of mother nature eh.. Look forward to seeing what you decided on for the 'blank canvas'

[Madasafish]

>Gloria
Try a flame thrower:-)

[nick the grief]

Wow... you found a Bin and a Rotary washing line..!!

No, but we have found a blackbirds nest with two chicks in the Clematis The Waterlily has gone Rampant with the last couple of days sunshine as well. We've got a new filter & pump to fit that should handle around 1500 gallons/hour as that "little" pond is actually 5ft deep so holds about 2000 gallons of water & the 6 goldfish we had off my sister has multplied to about 60!!

As to whats going in there, well I like (no better make that Love) Lavender so I fancy a nice Lavender hedge around the pond and underplanted with Daffodills for Spring, a few Potentilla's as Mrs G like them and then maybe a few bedding plants.

The top half is going to be Slabs to match the patio ( mock York stone jobs - nice creamy buff colour) and I shall build another Arch and then either slabs or Concrete the path although we have loads of old bicks so these bedded into concrete & edged with cobbles sounds good.

The far end of the pond where the small bed is I shall re-do in wall blocks rather than the wooden edging and then grow a few Dahlia's in summer and put the cold frame on it in the winter/spring.

The bed on the right hand side I'm thinking of putting some posts & wires up and growing a few fruit trees against it - not sure yet may just leave it as Alchemilla Mollis & Lavender & maybe sneak a few more roses in

I reckon that should take me up to next year easy as I've got lottie No.2 to do and the bottom half of the garden to re do but that will probable use the gravel from the top half.

[JennieAtkinson]

Blank Canvas ? I thought I'd clicked onto the wrong photo .........

If Mrs G fell in love with Scotland last week you'll have to plant a few rhododenrums ......

[Alice]

How about some pics, Nick.

[nick the grief]

How about some pics, Nick.

What of Alice Scotland or the garden