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Welcome to Johns garden in north west England. When we arrived the new build house had a typical small back garden with poor soil full of boulders. We improved the soil with some compost from our old garden and some soil improver and cut some borders out which we edged with sleepers and put in some more topsoil. The new garden is about 10 metres long by 10 metres wide. Although our area is not famous for its fine weather the new garden faces south and therefore obtains maximum benefit from the available sunshine. The garden has been planted with easy maintainence, perennial planting with some dahlias and begonias to give some instant colour. we have also put in some Lavatera bushes raised from cuttings to give more colour and some height. I have left the snow scenes from my old garden as they are a one off and have left the greenhouse pictures for interest.

 

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Summer

Spring


Some links to the old garden


Summer - greenhouse

Winter - snow scenes

Winter - greenhouse


The gardening year - jobs, hints and tips from the garden and "plant of the month"

Jan/Feb March April May June July August September October November/December

Featured plants

Alpine-border

 

Phygelius

 

Pentstemon

 

Bamboo/grasses

             

Abutilon

 

Osteospermum

 

Hardy Fuchsia

 

Hardy geranium

Pictures I have taken on visits to some much grander gardens than mine. All of the gardens have extensive plant collections and I can recommend them to any keen, or not so keen, gardener. I have included links to the gardens on these pages.

The Flower Forest-Barbados

 

The Alhambra-Granada, Spain

     

Italian Gardens-Garnish Island, Ireland

 

My Dads Garden-Hertfordshire, England

     

Villa Taranto Gardens-Lake Maggiore - Italy

 

Andromeda gardens - Barbados

     

Madeira island - Portugal

 

National Botanic Garden of Wales

RHS Garden Bridgewater

This is a new garden just opened by the RHS near our house in Manchester.  Well worth a visit if you are in the area.

Links to gardens to visit in north west England and north Wales

Links to other gardening sites

About John

If you have any comments or suggestions please Email me at john@johnsgarden.co.uk