Garden progress so far, 2010 vs 2013
By cordyman
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Hi guys,
First post :) Great forum, I’ve joined up to get some inspiration for more colour in my garden now the hardy backbone is now established. Thought I’d share the progress so far.
On moving into the new house the garden was rather bare, a few rose bushes, empty borders, rickety fances, red painted house, and lots of woody budlejas!
I’m in the Northwest UK climate zone 8b, but 2009+2010 winters took me to a 7b. Onto the pictures :)
Entrance to the garden
View from decking
View from shed
View from lawn
West border
Trachycarpus Fortunei one of the few plants I kept
Shed painted black
Wheres the shed?
Side decking view, cordyline died in 2010 and was lopped to the ground
Cordyline regrowth
Budjela out of control
Exit from garden
View from table
26 Jul, 2013
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Welcome from me too, I was going to say the same as Drc726...:)))
26 Jul, 2013
Welcome to GOY Cordyman.You have certainly transformed a boring patch into a great, lush,luxurious tropical garden!
26 Jul, 2013
Welcome to GoY, you've worked hard, it all looks very tropical now.
26 Jul, 2013
Welcome to GoY! What a fantastic transformation, your garden looks stunning!
26 Jul, 2013
Welcome to GoY you have worked hard it's looking good !
26 Jul, 2013
Lots of hard work gone in there, welcome to GoY, it is good to see before and after pictures - hope you enjoy yourself on this brilliant site.
27 Jul, 2013
Welcome to GOY. What a lovely garden. Amazing difference in such a short time.
27 Jul, 2013
Welcome to Goy Cordyman. Your garden looks fabulous, what an amazing transformation. You've worked so hard. We've only lived in our house a couple of years. It was gutted and we had to do a full refurb. We moved in in the April and instead of painting all the newly plastered walls we spent our two weeks off in the garden.....well we did have a gloriously sunny two weeks and hey, painting can wait!
27 Jul, 2013
Thanks for the warm welcome all :)
I've done far more in the garden than interior, there are still two rooms need repainting! I figure winter's a good time to do indoor jobs :D
Its just started raining which should do the garden some good, its been rather arid since the start of July, so i'm out everynight watering usually!
27 Jul, 2013
What a gorgeous garden you have created Cordyman! Lots of hardwork and thought has gone into it.
27 Jul, 2013
Looks very tropical hoping that's some rum with the melon lol
You may have heard of Will Giles's the exoctic garden in Norwich
Google it and have a look it amazing for a city garden
27 Aug, 2013
Wow !! Love it!!!
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Welcome to GOY, you have made a lovely garden.
26 Jul, 2013