I've started a new thread for this so that the chat thread doesn't get filled up with pictures. I've been a bit snap happy the last day or two!


My pot/gravel bed finished, I'll never lay patio's for a living, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Especially as I've never tried anything like this before! The only thing I'm not keen on is the willow edging to stop the whole thing falling into next doors garden. I'd love to put a fence up but that would block most of the afternoon sun from the garden, so best leave it as it is.


Semps in pots


Pot of calcareum that I bought yesterday. When I split the pot I could see that all those chicks came from just one hen - amazing!


Here she is after splitting, with just one layer of chicks around her. In the gap at the back are two very tiny chicks that don't showon the photo


My new hester



New arach.


After some consideration and measuring I've decided to leave the tin tubs alone for the time being, and make my rock garden in this quarter circle, maybe I could expand it next year though!


A quick route around in the bit of the garden that I don't admit to knowing that belongs to me, resulted in a good haul of stones to start off with

Kate I LOVE your pot/gravel bed! WOW! It really looks nice with the pots. And your new planting bed will be great... The beds hold so many more semps than pots!

Thanks Patty! It'll look better when the plants look more like plants than sticks and bits of dead grass lol

That new bed is going to be nice. Love the pots and all your plants look so healthy!!

Kate I just love your gravel bed, so much eye appeal with the pots arranged so neatly. And when the willow fence starts deteriorating maybe you can replace it with more of the cement edging pieces?

Lawn is over rated, love what you will be doing with the quarter circle.
I noticed that the area is sloped. Hmmm, maybe it could be terraced and planted with more semps.
The stones are wonderful, and will really add to beauty of the bed.

Thanks Spring.

Lynn, Yes, more cement edging is a good idea. The new bit will be a semp bed, but I wouldn't know where to begin with terracing it. Do you know of any good tutorials?

You can do a semi terracing using the stones to hold areas of earth/gravel in pockets. Kind of like these examples.
http://wildgingerfarm.com/Berm...

Nice pics! Semps would look great up and down those steps on the side. Are they already there? I can't see them well on this phone.

Thanks Lynn! Great pictures,some real inspiration

There are no semps on the steps Clint, and asthey are shared with our upstairs neighbour it's probably not a wise idea. Let's just say she's not thrilled about my latest gardening exploits.....

I didn't mean on the steps where you walk. I meant the side where the dirt is.

I'm going to dig all that up and plant it with semps

Kate I love your "Garden gnome" in the backround of first photo! How cute is she! The bed looks very nice, you could add more pots into it...did you see that silent movie of the person with all the pots in semps - something to aspire too!! I know I'm working on it!
I love the brick with cement of those steps, adding the rock garden there will look very nice with that as a backdrop! How exciting and inspiring!

Such a fun place to start a Semp bed. A bit challenging too but I know it will look wonderful when you
get it all filled in. Some nice stones to hold the dirt in place will be a big help and give some shade to tiny semps too.

I too love your gnome. I had to go back through the pics to see if I missed something when I read Greg's post.
But there she was on the fence. ... was she thinking of doing a runner??

Marilyn that last part cracked me up, I was reading along minding my own business then I read that and busted out laughing! Scared the poor dog!

Doncha think?

I agree with Greg. That may be the cutest garden statue I have ever seen. It looks just like a little girl.

Wonder how long Kate makes her stay there - "wait that one's blurry"

Okay, you guys had me going there for a minute. I didn't see any garden gnome. Then it dawned on my that you all were talking about the adorable little girl.