My favourite place to be is in the garden.
We started with nothing except too much lawn.
Growing vegetables in pots and tubs is not so bad when they grow like this. To be able to move the pots around also helps to work out the best place to create the permanent vegetable garden come Spring. There’s a lot of shade in the back yard this time of year and we want to grow vegetables in all seasons.
I’m in the Garden by Chrissy for Riverside Peace
Feet up after a morning in the garden.
Enjoying the view…
Flowering hanging baskets
Quiet Corners…
Small gardens can be just right.
Photography by Chrissy for Riverside Peace
Until garden stores and nurseries are back to full business, small tidy ups and finding temporary homes for my potted plants, is as much as we can do for now.
We finished off the seating corner for now. I’m hoping to place a Narnia lamp post between the arch seat and the garden shed. Perhaps once the 3 native bottle brush grow a bit taller, they’ll be seen behind the seat cushions.
Extra pebbled areas where we constantly walk is definitely helping the warn patches of the lawn.
Lawn still recovering.
mmmm….I think a nice garden statue would look good here at the bottom of the back steps. Another trip to a nursery once lock down has lifted completely.
I’m in the Garden by Chrissy for Riverside Peace
These photos were taken in our little front garden which was partly there, without any commonsense or plan, when we moved into our new home in December. With a bit of rearranging here and there, adding some cottage garden seedlings, using grey water and buckets throughout summer’s drought water restrictions, the garden is coming alive.
I’m in the Garden by Chrissy for Riverside Peace
Free things always work well in the garden.
Add some black paint.
and a sunny day
and there you have it.
This area was all lawn before we started.
With most garden stores closed due to the COVID-19 restrictions, it’s taken some constant changes and imagination to get the main corner garden acceptable .
With the fish pond.
Windmill purchased via the internet. It was actually better than we thought it would be.
Some creative colour while waiting for the native seeds to grow.
My fairy garden will have to wait until life is back to some sort of normality. My stored gnomes though have found a new home.
And at night, it’s not a bad job done by a couple of oldies in lock-down.
I’m in the Garden by Chrissy for Riverside Peace
