[Casey76]

I have to kind of explain about my garden!  I have 640sqm of land and my 120sqm house sits roughly in the middle of it with the garden running in an upside down U shape arount it.

It means I have a front garden, a back garden and a side garden which are all really one space.

When I bought the house (two years ago) I inherited a rather untidy, very chaotic garden, and never had a garden before it was rather overwhelming the first year.

This year I'm a bit more organised   The chickens, which had the run of the entire garden last year, are now confined to half the back garden and half the side garden - at the sacrifice of the veg plot... but I decided I liked my dahlias much more than my veg attempts, so I'm really not too upset!

Over the past 2 weekends, I've been tidying up the front garden, and here is where I'm at with my new border:


And a different angle:


Compared to last year:


I really need to get a specialist in to sort out my trees (especially the cherry), but I don't really know where to start with that one!  There is NO grass under the cherry, because it casts so much shade.

[Yorkie]

Wow, well done, looks great!

[compostqueen]

Looking very good 

I have the same thing with an overgrown cherry that casts deep shade over my lawn but I've started lopping off overhanging branches, just the thinner branches that I can get to with a saw.  I don't want to start tree climbing as I think it's too dangerous and I'm a coward     It's a lot better just for getting shut of some of the thinner branches

[Dilly Dom]

Do you have a lot of strong winds there?  Concrete posts with wires on   Be good to grow raspberries up though.

[Casey76]

Well it is more sociable than a 6ft high wooden fence!

I am actually growing honeysuckle and jasmine against it - with the neighbours permission as it is his fence!

[Dilly Dom]

That sounds lovely and you will have heavenly scent too.

[Trillium]

Now you can squeeze a tomato plant here and there 

[Yabba]

sacrifice of the veg plot... but I decided I liked my dahlias much more than my veg attempts, so I'm really not too upset!

Hope like hell yer dahlias look great ( they will ), but I was happy when I got the ex-dahlia beds space to grow veg!;)

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[hamstergbert]

Come to that, Dahlia tubers are in fact edible. (And as food is in fact what they were originally introduced into Europe for in the first place)

[Yabba]

Really? Damn .. we live and learn!

I'm gonna spend the whole of summer talking to our dahlias "yer gonna be on my plate one day if you keep on growing in a vigorous way :|" whilst I diligently water them

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