gravel garden ideas

Looks fabulous!

Thank you kindly! Keeps me out of mischief on a sunny day - if any of us can remember what that feels like!

That's a fantastic area - what a great job you've done here.

beautiful looking

Great place to sit.

Yes Wagger....I like my "seats" - in and out! Comes with old age!

it looks absolutely lovely.

SO much easier to look after than herbaceous borders. Mind you I also did this bit of garden so that I could grow something that the snails wouldn't challenge me on....FORGET IT...they cleaned out my ...what I now call
"Messy- bryanthemums" in a couple of nights - and they were in a shallow pan ON THE GRAVEL! My snails must have cast iron tums to slide over it.!

Love your garden :)Carol

Stunning !!...Gobsmacked,

Thank you all....on a nice day (unlike today!) it can be lovely sitting out there and my friend has given me a pretty green Bistro set - instead of that plastic chair you see in the pic.

It all looks very pretty, and so well looked after.

My kinda garden

Wonderful, Im sure it does keep you very busy but the outcome is worth every minute of the time spent!

It is easier than big herbaceous borders when one is less than able.....at least that was the intention! Trouble is - there are never enough pots and troughs!!

It must take you ages to water all those pots,troughs and baskets!

If I do everything - front and back garden and greenhouse and sitootery - it can take a couple of hours and that is with a hosepipe - as I can't carry watering cans this year....not one but two frozen shoulders and a recent small flake fracture after a fall...not my year!!

Oh Dear poor you sorry to hear that it is hard work with watering cans, hooray for hosepipes. I always use a hose pipe as I have a number of hanging baskets where I find a watering can too heavy to lift, but I usually finished within the hour.

I know the feeling I've got a pile of old roof tiles by the hose reel place the watering can on them to fill it using the hose and carry it using my good arm. I do use the hose sometimes but quite often lately I put a bit feed in for my summer flowers. The rain has helped avoid watering too.

Good for you - it is amazing how we learn to adapt isn't it! n Sadly I don't have a good arm at the moment having had two frozen shoulders since last Xmas - and of course the flake fracture of the right one two weeks ago. So it is all hosepipe or nothing for my lot!! As you say - the rain has helped - a bit at least! I actually invested in one of those MiracleGrow hose feeding things ...as my baskets would have run out of steam otherwise...not as good as my old way of feeding but better than nothing!!

great display.. my favorite are the woody containers!

what a beautiful garden, wish mine looked like that.

Looking a bit sad this morning after all the rain again....and more forecast :~((
Soon be time to change things round and get the winter polys etc in situ...no rest for a gardener...not even an old one!!
By the way Ibrahim.....those woody containers are mostly mock ones - and light as a feather - so I can move them about! They look genuine though - which is why I chose them - fools a lot of people - ha ha!

This looks terrific.
Was admiring the containers/planters as well. How are they mock? do you mean they just sit over a pot. They look great.

No....they are made of some sort of coloured polystyrene and made to look like bits of log or stone...light as a feather to pick up and move - before the compost goes in of course...lol !! Sadly - the company that made them, seems to have given up....I haven't seen them for years now - these ones are a good age.

Thanks for the info. Its a shame they are no longer available, they look great. I'm able to make some up myself from wood (I am a woodworker) but its nice to see some variation so I'm intending to try making some from concrete in the (hopefully) not to distant future.

OOH...I do envy your ability to work in wood - it must be ever so satisfying. The stone and concrete ones can look lovely if they are "aged" a bit....sadly much too heavy for me now. I did see a couple of wonderful old garden figures at an antiques fair last month. They were really gorgeous and over 100 years - and beautifully weathered. They would have looked nice at my doorway - as my old cottage is 150+ years. However they were asking far too much. Maybe in a month or two - if they haven't sold - they may drop the price a bit...being a mean old Aberdonian - I live in hope ...LOL

Working with wood has its ups and downs just like most occupations I guess, and gardening too of course, but yes its enjoyable (although very quiet at the moment)
When I do make some concrete planters I hope to place them and that is where they will remain because as you say, TO HEAVY!! lol.
There are some lovely old stonework items around but costly. Good luck with these, let us know if you get them!

Gorgeous- I love your 'yellow' baskets - very pretty.

Yes - these Friolina Violas really did the business and put up a good show...I can heartily recommend them....mind you the dead-heading is a pain!!!

I noticed my collection of seeds for next yr were all pink and blue so I sat down the other night and ordered some yellow and orange ones.

EEEEK! I have to confess to cheating and I get Friolina Gold Pansy Young Plants from Thomson and Morgan. These are the trailing little faced pansies or violas - which ever you care to call them!! I am not sure that you can buy the seed yet...but the plug plants go off like a rocket and indeed those two baskets aren't finished yet but I have replaced them for a couple of winter baskets as I will be on crutches for a few weeks and am trying to get ahead of the game this year...if that is poss...LOL I used to do all my own sowing and pricking out - but don't have the energy any more ;>>((

It'll be my first try thought i'd give it a go. Got an autumn sowing of sweet peas in my plastic greenhouse for my friend.

Pretty gravel garden :o)