Our Gardens

[monkey]

Reading some of the comments on WAB and looking at photos I have been thinking that a lot of members must have interesting gardens so I thought I would share mine with you:




I am so proud of my garden which has been completely done from a wilderness that existed with the rundown,empty property that I bought!

The Summerhouse/shed was built by a very clever friend of mine mainly from recycled wood etc costing not much more than a 'shop bought 8'x10' shed'

I love the pond or perhaps I should call it a lake! It took a lot of back breaking digging but is worth every minute. It attracts lots of wild birds who love the shallow edges and waterfalls to bathe in. I have also become the 'rescue centre' for fish that become too big for other peoples ponds. Unfortunately I struggle to appreciate the visiting heron who seems unaware that the ornamental heron stood by the pond should scare him away! Using some of the left over pond liner a bog garden was built adjacent to the pond to allow the growing of plants which would have been difficult because of the heat from being in south facing sun.

What is your garden like I would love to see it and we could all share ideas?

Linda

[nightshade]

Beautiful garden and lake,I thought the shed was your Bungalow

[tufftie]

Love the water Linda

Well this will only be my garden for the next few weeks but here it is

[smartie]

Lovely garden, Linda. I don't know if you have looked at the thread called WAB members garden photos (or something similar) in the wildlife gardening forum - you will see images of many of our gardens there. It's a sticky thread so is easy to find. It shows up at the top when you look at the forum.

[ron1863]

Absolutely beautiful garden and I love the "shed".

[Jez]

I love the look of your monkey house as well as the garden!

[badgerwatcher]

That's beautiful, Monkey. I love the water.

[demicav]

lovely gardens.

[monkey]

Thank you everyone for your compliments I did not realise there was already another thread for members gardens oops! Im learning!!

Linda

[aeshna5]

Here are a couple of shots of my small suburban garden which I have tried to develop to attract wildlife:

[Jez]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

Here are a couple of shots of my small suburban garden which I have tried to develop to attract wildlife:

It's chocker Nice planting!!! Bet you get loads of wildlife in it?!?

[aeshna5]

Thanks! For the location I get a fair bit, but I'm sure I would get a lot more in a more rural location.

[Jez]

Possibly though I couldn't be 100% certain. I live in a rural location myself, I'm fortunate to have a lot of birds visiting my garden, we have a few squirrels visit, Hedgehogs a couple, and bats fly over head. A lot of moths (which I want to be far more up on) and butterflies and other insects. But I remember once when doing door to door for Channel 5 retuning peoples sets back in 97 seeing in a front suburban garden Butterfly's on mass. I have never witnessed anything quite like it, literally hundreds of butterflies just enjoying the benefits of the nectar plants. I don't know what plants they were but wow, only if I have those numbers in my garden I'd be made & what events where taking place in the back garden one can only dream of!!!

[nightshade]

These are lovely gardens,I think that if you make your garden attractive the wildlife will come.
One garden that always fascinated me,had a vegetable plot and a gravel
parking area in the centre of which was a tall umberella shaped Lilac
(this tree is very underated now) this was allways a mass of butterflies that are considered rare now