Front garden

Pixis one a day, its coming on : )

Front gardens are all about the neighbours tho', don't you think? It's round where it's private that you make your lovely space...

Having said that, those Ceanothus and Japanese maple are truly magnificent, hen!!!! :))))

Grrrrrrrr..i wasnt even gonna post a blog coz I thought I had been doing too many..dont worry St Stevie that will be it for a while now!
Thanks hen :)

wow pixi, that acer, ceanothis and the peonie, all beautiful!!

That ceanothus is beautiful and you have some other great plants there, too. Like your new wee border.
I really dislike working out the front where there's no privacy. There's been a discussion on here about that and it seems lots of folk feel exactly the same.

Front gardens looking great too Pixi.
Dont stop blogging or I will have to watch "The Moose" again & that makes me wet myself! Lol.

very nice Pixi. the white one may be Ipheion uniflorum, (white star flower) nice plants..

I dont like doing my front garden either!!

Lovely Pixi - I hate going on my front garden - hate people watching me . yours is lovely Pixi and what a ceanothus!!!!

I, too, am not keen on doing the front - you feel everyone's watching you (especially if you're taking photos!!!)

I agree with Sheilar and everyone else who doesn't like gardening in the front and also feel that everyone's watching. When I have to do the front garden, I try and finish it as soon as possible so I can go and enjoy myself in the back garden. I also try and get out the front as early in the day as possible in the hope that no-one will be about, but it seems they possibly have the same idea!

'If' I had a front garden i wouldn't be embarrassed to work in it or take pics, my container garden is out front but its usually the dogs watching me

i live on a busy road and im not keen on two of the neighbours, thats another reason to not like being in the front garden!!

i dont mind dogs or cats watching though!!!

I got caught today in my very private wee back garden. Having wandered out early in my pjs to see what was doing, a voice from above - i.e. a painter high up a ladder doing the roofline next door - said 'I like your garden'. I was too taken aback to even say thankyou and just scurried inside. Poor man, he was just being friendly.

sorry oji that made me laugh!!!

My front garden is mainly a carpark, it has two cars one caravan, a trailer and three wheelie bins, there are only two narrow borders and my pots and baskets to care for, I spent last Friday morning out there cutting the hedge and tidying the borders, luckily nobody was about as I also get cross if people stop me getting the hedge sorted, thats the only gardening job I dislike, our house has the kitchen, hallway, bathroom, stairs and landing at the front so both dining room and sitting room look out onto my pride and joy, my garden, its the way we like it....
Nice pics Pixi....

Thanks all..seems to be a wdie psread feeling then. I dont mind working in it or people watchinhg,.thing that gets me is people i dont know stopping to talk when I'm trying to get work done.
lol WIlli..go watch it again hahaha!
laughing at Oj! I go out in my jammies all the eime in the morning..dont relally care who sees me lol
Yes i think youre right SL :~) tahksn :)) opps on laptop lol can you guess?

Gorgeous Acer and Ceanothus Pixi....lots of other wee treasures too :) I don't like gardening in the front much either. Got it all done on Sunday morning before 10! I usually stick things in the borders round the front when I don't know what to do with them - all a bit mish mash in my front garden. I always go out in pjs when I get up - couldn't care who sees me either, except drama queen neighbour thinks it's disgusting!!!! She's a strange one!!! She asked me the other day if I could stop one of the cats looking out the upstairs hall window as she feels he is stalking her!

sorry scottish that made me laugh!! i take it your neighbour hasnt got cats!!!

my OH is retiring and will be doing a part time job therefore he will have more free time, he has decided he would like to do some gardening [he doesnt know a weed from a flower] so he is going to do the front garden and i shall do the back!! [ he wont mind being out the front at all]

Your unknown white flower is Ornithogalum. It's very pretty. I used to have lots of them in the previous garden
And I think your Ceanothus is beautiful :o)

I enjoy my front garden because I can have a chat to passers by. They love to see my plants. .... Well I like to be sociable, and not hide myself away all the time. I've swapped many cuttings with people in the front :o)
And I feel the front garden welcomes people to my home :o)

Really nice thoughts hywel especially that front garden being the welcome to your home.

Thanks ANgie..yes that Ceanothus is jsut amazing it spreads so much tho have to trim it back every year or there would be no room for anyhting else! lol My garden back and front is a mishmash lol..i like higgeldy piggedly! Cant believe your neighbour asking that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! silly woman! lol
Sounds like a good plan ST!!!!!! :)
AH thanks Mr Hywel..so Surreylad was wrong? It spretty whatever its called :)

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You have lots of plants in your front garden, i'm not a front garden person at all, always make sure its clean and tidy and thats it, i have lots of gravel on my front.

That sounds painful Clarice lol ;o))

Pixi you could try the flower on the questions page for confirmation ...

My front garden needs lots of work and money spent on it Pixi but I have been putting lots of plants in the make it look a little bit better but not feeling comfortable now that some tyje stole one of my azalea's not gonna put any pots out there this summer you have some lovely plants in your front garden:)

lol Mr Hywel! I think you are right I googled it :)
ThANKS Nana. Such a shame about your plant. what about putting a big fance up?

He He He! Pixi my son came back from Uni yesterday & I showed him your Moose video, He wet himself too.
He couldn't understand some of it & said "Its like she comes from another country" I said you silly Uni boy, She does! Lol.

Hhahahaha! Omg Do you get Tenaman? lolol

Front looks really nice Pixi. LOVE the Ceanothus!! Don't think I've ever seen this over here.

THanks Lil :) Its getting there! Just wish all the wild flwers would grow in the muddle! Yeah the Ceanothus is supreb!