Garden Update

So we are about ten months in to the great garden project and the hard landscaping is finished (for now!)  So there have been successes and failures and changes are on going.  It’s been the hottest summer on record and it’s been lovely to use the outdoor space, pretty sure it fried a few plants though!  I’ve learnt I’m not very good with the “scruffy” elements of gardening and I struggle without an instant result, not yet at the “finding gardening soothing” stage.  So, mum’s Magnolia and Hosta are thriving, the Rudbeckia was a surprising hit too, the strawberries were few but delicious. It would seem there were no photos taken of the wildflower meadow in full bloom, it was definitely a hit with the wildlife but too big, too busy, too random for my taste.  It is coming out and being replaced with flower beds and turf (there might be a guerrilla wildflower meadow popping up nearby though).  The “rockery’ was just some random stones in a flower bed, that offended me too, they are gone.  The slope under the decking, yeah nothing thrived there, it has a weed membrane and is tidy if uninspiring at the moment.  The Cotoneaster moved and is fighting back, I learnt it is not pronounced Cotton-Easter.  My next project is planting Spring bulbs, I can spend all winter optimistically envisaging the garden looking like an advert for Farmer Gracy.