Gardening for beginers (aka me)

For our summer wedding we wanted to get our outside venue in perfect condition, which meant a whole lot of gardening! The garden belongs to Zane's parents and was in need of a little TLC. There was actually a large patch of the garden that was used as a compost/chuck everything here pile. Is was damn ugly.

We decided we wanted to create a seating area as the view from this patch was very pretty, overlooking the next door field. As our theme was loosely based around a secret garden, we wanted the area to appear unkept and not the usual manicured flower bed most people aspire to.

Here is the patch once we had cleared and leveled the ground, removed the weeds, planted the flowers and shrubs and sectioned out a pathway.

The large wooden spool was going to be sunk into the ground and used as a table.

The original planting began in late April as we had a really late spring last year in the UK and frost was still on the ground in mid April! The ground was so increadibly fertile from the compost heap that used to be there, and soon enough the plants began to actually grow!

This is the patch about 3 weeks before the wedding. We had now decided to move the spool out and replace it with a little garden set. The plants were growing well and starting the flower, thank goodness. Some potted Dahlias and a little stepping stone path finished it off.