6 Ways I Would Like to Improve My Garden

I have quite a small garden, but to be honest I don’t really mind that. I have very un-green fingers so I need to wait until I’m a proper adult and get into gardening before I have anything bigger.

At the moment our garden is a bit of a mess – the fence has fallen down on one side and it desperately needs mowing, so we are working on sorting those things out, and then making the whole thing nicer. I am determined for us to have a lovely garden we can play in by next summer. I need to encourage myself to get outside when it’s cold anyway, so I would ideally wrap up warm occasionally over the winter and get rid of some weeds or just do a bit of tidying so that by the time the warmer weather starts to come around next year, we will be in a better place to start it and make it lovely again.

Here are 6 things I would do to improve my garden:

1. Replace all of the fences and paint them all as well as the wall – We replaced part of the fence a couple of years ago, but another bit is broken, and obviously we need to sort the bit that has fallen down. And I would like them to be all one colour, possibly blue – I always think that looks nice with the green of plants.

2. Replant all of the borders with lots of lovely evergreens, as well as plant lots of lovely bulbs all over the place so we have pretty Daffodils and other flowers springing up every year.

3. Replace the lawn with artificial grass. We are absolutely terrible at mowing the lawn regularly and so it so often looks a mess and I hate it. Not having to mow it anymore would be a massive relief and so I would love to have artificial grass so that it always looks great and we wouldn’t have the dead patches of grass we seem to always have! It would also be really interesting to see if it helped to reduce the hayfever in our house as grass pollen really affects us.

4. Get a lovely small greenhouse like this really lovely one from Two Wests & Elliott so that I could grow some tomatoes and other bits, and really look after them for once! I think this is so pretty.

5. Replace the paving stones with decking – I think decking looks so much nicer and natural, and that way I wouldn’t have to worry about weeding in between all of the paving stones all the time!

6. I would love to get some new garden furniture – we’ve had ours a few years now, and bits of it have broken, so I’d love to get some new wooden furniture to sit and enjoy the crisp air with a cup of tea or a hot chocolate!

Do you have a garden? What would you do to improve it if you could?

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