Quick garden update

I’m not sure quite what this blog is about anymore, but for a good while it was about me messing around in my garden (hence its title).  Anyway, I thought I should post a quick update as there are one or two kind souls who have asked me about it.

As a reminder, cast your mind back to…

March 2007

Yes – I quite agree – complete nightmare. Anyhoo, I think I have made some progress.  Here’s a couple of up to date pictures. The first is from June 2009, and the second is this weekend just gone.

June 2009

August 2009

I’m quite pleased anyway. Some bits are still a work in progress, and the turf I lovingly laid is now about 80% clover (I counted – I seem to have 4 different types) so I need to do something about that once I get the energy.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

This week is Chelsea week. The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show. I’m enjoying the nightly BBC TV coverage as usual. Some of the designs are absolutely fab. It always makes me want to get doing something in my own garden. As well as the plants I sit on my sofa lusting over the gorgeous stonework and wooden architecture and things. Oh to have a bottomless pit of money.

Here’s a link to the RHS Chelsea website.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/chelsea/2008/index.asp

And here is a link to the BBC’s i-player where you can see some of the coverage (hopefully anyway) but if you want to watch it’s only available for 4 more days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b007jf2t.shtml?src=ip_potpw

I’d love to go, but I always forget it’s happening until the day before it starts and by then all the tickets have sold out. Perhaps I’ll be more organised next year…