Garden Makeover

It was time to make the garden look a bit more organised and maintained - but we still wanted to keep the old fashioned villa feel to it.  What better that to add some formality with box hedges - its a bit like vacuum cleaning - if the box hedge is well trimmed then  everything else will look tidy.  While we are at it clipping the pittosporum also made a big difference.  The rest of the plants can be a little unwieldy but the core plantings tie it all together!  Well that is the idea anyway!! :)




In keeping with the side garden we have put a row of boxus hedge around the border of the back sunny garden.  In the middle we will have the core plants of hydrangeas which will sport big blooms with pops of colour for summer months of the year after the cineraria's have done their September flowering.

Under the privet hedge which has taken a beating and looking really bare at the moment due to it getting out of control we have a row of what I thought was called a boars ear plant.  They will hide the ugliness of the bare branches.  Just have to remember to put snail and slug bait around them because the beggars love to eat the big leaves.