'redecorating' my garden
 

hey guys, i am about to (nearer spring time) take on an overhaul of my garden, it has become totally overgrown of late and i have seriously neglected it. i am currently brainstorming for ideas, i have about 10m squared of lawn and an extra 7m squared of patio... can anyone suggest anything that they have done/seen recently to inspire me please??

'redecorating' my garden
 

In article ,
clara309 wrote:

hey guys, i am about to (nearer spring time) take on an overhaul of my
garden, it has become totally overgrown of late and i have seriously
neglected it. i am currently brainstorming for ideas, i have about 10m
squared of lawn and an extra 7m squared of patio... can anyone suggest
anything that they have done/seen recently to inspire me please??

Stop neglecting it, pull some weeds, and visit a nursery.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/j...acks_1-5-09.ph
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'redecorating' my garden
 

clara309 wrote:
hey guys, i am about to (nearer spring time) take on an overhaul of my
garden, it has become totally overgrown of late and i have seriously
neglected it. i am currently brainstorming for ideas, i have about 10m
squared of lawn and an extra 7m squared of patio... can anyone suggest
anything that they have done/seen recently to inspire me please??

Borrow some garden design books from the library.

David

'redecorating' my garden
 

"David Hare-Scott" wrote:
clara309 wrote:
hey guys, i am about to (nearer spring time) take on an overhaul of my
garden, it has become totally overgrown of late and i have seriously
neglected it. i am currently brainstorming for ideas, i have about 10m
squared of lawn and an extra 7m squared of patio... can anyone suggest
anything that they have done/seen recently to inspire me please??

Borrow some garden design books from the library.

David

Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture

http://www.amazon.com/Gaias-Garden-S...4706529&sr=1-1

--
Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

'redecorating' my garden
 

In article ,
Nad R wrote:

"David Hare-Scott" wrote:
clara309 wrote:
hey guys, i am about to (nearer spring time) take on an overhaul of my
garden, it has become totally overgrown of late and i have seriously
neglected it. i am currently brainstorming for ideas, i have about 10m
squared of lawn and an extra 7m squared of patio... can anyone suggest
anything that they have done/seen recently to inspire me please??

Borrow some garden design books from the library.

David

Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture

http://www.amazon.com/Gaias-Garden-S...e/dp/160358029
8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294706529&sr=1-1

You mean, read? Somehow I don't think clara309 will find that inspiring.
Too many of those fact thingies.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/j...acks_1-5-09.ph
p

'redecorating' my garden
 

Billy wrote:
In article ,
Nad R wrote:

"David Hare-Scott" wrote:
clara309 wrote:
hey guys, i am about to (nearer spring time) take on an overhaul of my
garden, it has become totally overgrown of late and i have seriously
neglected it. i am currently brainstorming for ideas, i have about 10m
squared of lawn and an extra 7m squared of patio... can anyone suggest
anything that they have done/seen recently to inspire me please??

Borrow some garden design books from the library.

David

Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture

http://www.amazon.com/Gaias-Garden-S...4706529&sr=1-1

You mean, read? Somehow I don't think clara309 will find that inspiring.
Too many of those fact thingies.

Poster did state: "can anyone suggest ANYTHING... Seen" :)
The book inspired me :)

--
Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

'redecorating' my garden
 

On 1/10/2011 8:54 PM, Billy wrote:
In ,
Nad wrote:

"David wrote:
clara309 wrote:
hey guys, i am about to (nearer spring time) take on an overhaul of my
garden, it has become totally overgrown of late and i have seriously
neglected it. i am currently brainstorming for ideas, i have about 10m
squared of lawn and an extra 7m squared of patio... can anyone suggest
anything that they have done/seen recently to inspire me please??

Borrow some garden design books from the library.
Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
You mean, read? Somehow I don't think clara309 will find that inspiring.

I suppose recommending filling the spreader with rock salt and having a
go around the yard is out of the question... :)

--
The word "urgent" is the moral of the story "The boy who cried wolf". As
a general rule I don't believe it until a manager comes to me almost in
tears. I like to catch them in a cup and drink them later.
-- Matt Holiab, in the Monastery