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Gardening Enthusiast and Horticulturalist

    Category: water feature

    04/05/2020 blossom / crab apples / daffodils / fish / ponds / tulips / water feature

    April 2020: Spring flowers

    April has been a glorious month; we’ve had lots of blue sky and sunshine to enjoy whilst spending time in the garden. The national lockdown brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic has made me so thankful to have this space to retreat to. The crab apples (Malus ‘Eversete’) that we planted around the wall in November 2019 have bloomed this

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    06/10/2019 pond plants / ponds / water feature

    August 2019: Creating the ponds and oak sleeper bench

    In August we built three interconnected ponds. As you can see in the photo, we situated them in the ‘L’ shape of garden sandwiched between the raised beds and  the pergola walk way.  We started by removing the turf and used these to mark out the overall shape. As we have a high water table and wanted to create water

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    Recent Posts

    • October – December 2020: Bare root hedging and bulb planting
    • September 2020: Autumnal planting
    • August 2020: New planting beds
    • July 2020: Hard Landscaping
    • June 2020: Midsummer in the garden
    • May 2020: Nesting birds and spring flowers
    • April 2020: Spring flowers
    • March 2020: Spring planting
    • February 2020: Preparing a new planting bed
    • January 2020: Structural planting
    • December 2019: Planting a multi-stem cherry tree and reflections on 2019
    • November 2019: Planting bare root crab apple trees
    • September & October 2019: Late summer flowers and planting for spring 2020
    • August 2019: Creating the ponds and oak sleeper bench
    • July 2019: Laying the bound gravel paths and steel edging
    • June 2019: Building the retaining post wall
    • May 2019: Digging out the paths
    • April 2019: We finished the wall
    • March 2019: Spring in the garden
    • February 2019: First flowers, snow and heatwaves
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