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[clotilde]

I love the wild flower lawn/meadow that we planted at the bottom of the garden. For those of you who don't know the house well, out garden is mostly an unattractive area of weed-covered gravel. the autumn before last we planted the meadow, and it is coming up again, as if by magic, for the second time. The first flowers are started to come out,

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[sara_lou]

Gardens are wonderful. Working at home is made simultaneously more enjoyable by being able to see my garden and flowers and lawn from the kitchen window, and more frustrating because I keep wanting to get out there and tidy up. The more I do, the more there is to do. But it's very soothing.

Congratuations on your good news. All the more reason to get the garden wonderful just in time for a toddler to trash it. :-)

[faerose_]

oh how wonderful. Do you have any pics?

[clotilde]

No. My old camera got broken when some giant jenga fell on it at a wedding, and I'm thinking of turning my digital camera savings fund into a doula and maternity clothes fund.

[shedpete]

I have a digital camera you can have indefinitely - a reasonably good 'un, Coolpix 4500 - only caveat would be that if my main camera breaks down I might need to borrow it back briefly. Was keeping it as a backup but it's silly it sitting here unused, and I imagine that with baby stuff coming you'll be wanting to take all sorts of pics :-)

If you or Spence are in tomorrow AM (10ish) or eve (7ish) I could drop it off as I go to/from work...

Cheers
Pete

[shedpete]

Actually, forget the caveat. I'm sure I could borrow someone's in an emergency. So it's yours outright if you want it, so you don't have to worry about breaking it etc.

[puritypersimmon]

I think you're so lucky to have a garden. I spend hours pottering in our backyard and have got it looking pretty good with an abundance of plants and herbs in pots, but it's just not the same. Given your recent good news, maybe it needs to be fairly low-maintenance planting for a while. But at least you have somewhere nice to sit and ponder what to do with it next.

[clotilde]

My garden is full of potential, but sadly it will take vast amounts of work and several skips to make it look pretty. Although Elaine has suggested just buying in topsoil and leaving the gravel as drainage. I'm not sure if that really works, though. To make it into a proper garden I will have to organise a work party to empty and demolish at least one of the sheds (and possibly both) cart all the gravel into a skip, and possibly break up the concrete base for the bigger shed if we take that one down.

Once all that's done, I'll be able to start on the digging.

[puritypersimmon]

That certainly is a major project! It could look brilliant by the end of it, though. Not that gardens are ever finished exactly...Maybe you should write to that nice Diarmord (sp) Gavin and see if he could help ;)

[kissmeforlonger]

I'm sure if you did want to organise a team of people to spend some time over one weekend sorting this out, it could be done. Sounds like some heavy duty kit would be needed as well.

[rosamicula]

It was very nice to meet you gain last weekend. Just thought I'd let you know thatr I have friendulated you!