Sunday 29 May 2016

Welcome to my gardening journey!!

An Amateur's beginnings 




Hello there it's Nichola here!! A very new beginner to gardening. I've slowly come round to enjoying gardening more as a hobby rather than a chore (think it's came with age,

fast approaching 30 next month!) But I have been taking small steps into reading lots of gardening tips through family & social media ( Lovely like minded Twitter folk & a friendly local Facebook group) 
I've also found its so far given me a purpose & a chance to re focus on the simpler things in life and it also gives me a sense of escapism from everyday worries/stresses. After recently being in a very low time in my life I'm greatful for having a garden that can bring so much enjoyment!! 





This was my appalling back garden 3/4 years ago. We badly let it go but a plan for another child spurred us on to sort it out. I've kept myself some borders to play with that are getting filled up nicely with bulbs,alpines,perennials,annuals & some climbers. I'm also growing up some seeds to plant up some baskets (will post a blog on making them up!)

I look forward to sharing more of my growing love & hopefully one day someone will find this a bit useful :) 

Until next time xx


6 comments:

  1. What a transformation Nichola, your new garden space looks wonderful. I hope you enjoy planting it and sharing it with your family.

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    1. Thankyou kindly! I'm trying to get a good balance between practical maintenance for child friendly space but also keeping enough back for me to play around with too x

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  2. That looks great, Nichola! It must have been a lot of hard work, but so worth it. Looking forward to further posts about the development of your garden. Good luck!

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    1. Thankyou Janet! We had hired help to do the major part of it but the rest of the work with planting & maintaining and tweaking is all become my hobby now!!

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  3. Hello I look forward to reading, and seeing, how the garden progresses and develops. Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. Happy gardening. Flighty xx

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    1. Thankyou Flighty! Thankyou for giving some time to to read my first blog! The blog should hopefully evolve over the next year or 2 my front garden is getting some major thought & work put into it !! X

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