View from a room

What lovely gardens you all have. Ours is on an old farmyard and the soil is rubbish, full of melon-sized stones. Some of the melons did come in handy as edging when we made the gravel garden earlier in the year. I bought a large trough on legs, too, so I could grow flowers from seed for cutting. It is raining and very windy as I type this and DH tells me our grapevine has come loose from its moorings, as has a large lace-cap hydrangea. Poor things. No sense in trying to put them back whilst this gale is still blowing.

Beautiful and well cared for gardens.

Beautiful Hilda . My garden backs onto the park and is the reason we bought the house . The view through the bedroom window is stunning but sadly the garden has been neglected this year due to it being too much for me . I would love to afford a makeover !

Similar story here kitty. Our house was built in the car park of a pub. It was also an unofficial footpath down to the road. Nobody uses it as a path nowadays, thank goodness, I wouldn't like strangers traipsing past my windows. We have a summer house at one end and a leylandii hedge at the gate. Here is the summerhouse, taken on a sunny evening.

Low maintenance is good!!

Ours is very small and on the playground of the Victorian village school. Unfortunately, the people who did the house conversion did bugger all very little about getting rid of the playground tarmac so the drainage was appalling. The lawn was hopeless so we decided to make patios on two levels. It's the best thing we ever did because we now can sit in the garden while everyone else is mowing their grass.

You might have guessed - I love my garden, though I'm not a good gardener!

It's a water feature Hilda. We used to have pond but it got to be too much like hard work so we got rid of it. To keep the sound of water we bought a tower of bowls that overflow into each other. It stuck out like a sore thumb for years but is, at long last, fitting in a bit more.

Aren't we lucky to be able to create these lovely gardens nowadays.

Beautiful gardens kitty and hilda. We have gone for the low maintenance of gravel but have patio areas, decking, water features to break it up. We are north of Aberdeen NotTooOld and sunset is currently around 10pm. Lovely sitting outside in the dying light but not today I'm afraid-it's chucking it down!

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Lovely kitty, is that a water feature in the background? Or a planter, whatever it is, it's fab!

I should have said, the view of our garden is from the dining room.

What lovely gardens and what a fabulous thread

I love the view of our garden from the window seat in the kitchen - even in the rain.

Lovely garden Kate. Thank you for sharing.

Would you like to see mine after all this rain? I say mine, but really I can't take the credit, it's all DH's work.
Oh dear, the poor poppies!

Thank you.

Love your gravel garden, katek. DH and I have been making one of those this year and we love it. It was originally just a way of cutting down on the lawn mowing but we have become really interested in it, adding bits and pieces here and there, including rocks and interesting pieces of wood from our log store. Unfortunately, though, we don't have such a lovely view from our garden as you do from yours! Incidentally, you must be quite far north for your garden to be so light at that time of night?

You have a beautiful garden and wonderful outlook katek

Beautiful Katek