Gardening Update

What is Gardening to you? For me gardening was something to earn a bit of pocket money or help my Grandad, mainly pocket money!
I have always been interested in plants, more from a nature point of view, that's why i went to study ecology. I didn't finish my studies but the interest in plants has stayed with me.
Unfortunately i have not been blessed with green fingers, except for my beloved cactus's, i have had some for over ten years. Anyways forgetting the cactus, my recent attempts with kitchen herbs failed because i neglected them, i don't know why i did, but i did.
I like the grunt work, pulling weeds, mowing the lawn, not the fiddly stuff. But since the mother has been out of hospital she has wanted to get some flowers planted, god knows why. If you saw our garden you would think there had been a nuclear holocaust and only weeds had survived.
Yes it is that bad, but she is in charge. So she ordered the plants and off i went shopping for originally hanging baskets, but i decided on the things you will see in the slide show.




As you see from the show, only one of the things is planted! That is what happens when you let your parents be in charge, well she is old at 47. OK only put her age in to wind up some of my visitors! I know most of you could garden the pants off me (Ruth). Round two is on Sunday and from the pots to the rest of the Garden! Power tools are needed and i am not afraid to use them