Looking Forward To Gardening In 2007

"A garden is never so good as it will be next year."
(Thomas Cooper)

I'm imagining a gorgeous new garden in 2007 ...
inspired by some of the show gardens I saw during 2006 ...

a show garden at Malvern, love the stepping stones, a gorgeous feature for a small garden I might like red, but a think this red and black combination may be too strong for my garden, even though it won gold at the Malvern Flower Show a natural looking garden, built in just days for the Malvern show, does a natural looking garden allow a few weeds to remain?

I'm looking forward to enjoying crops of fresh, home grown fruit and vegetables ...
and I think gardeners will cheer with this little fact I've just read (courtesy of Sainsbury's Magazine January 2007)
"vitamin levels of fresh fruit and vegetables start to decline when they are harvested - vitamin C levels can have every 12 hours ..." so you should be harvesting and eating soon after ...

pick your own raspberries, looking forward to fresh fruit in 2007 maybe a little nut tree for the new garden in 2007, hazel nuts growing wild in hedgerow in summer 2006 looking forward to a fresh crop of tomatoes in my new greenhouse in 2007, cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes and lots of old tomato varieties

I'm missing my old back garden ...
here a just a few of the flowers I'd like to grow in my new garden ...

a gorgeous yellow clematis, variety Bill Mackenzie is featured, but I'm also missing my evergreen Armandii and the winter flowering Cirrhosa which took years before it started to flower what is an English garden without a rose, ideally with a wonderful fragrance a traditional, old fashioned flower the Rubeckia comes in loads of varieties and brightens up any garden or tub