I do so love looking around other people's gardens, and so I was delighted when our local open gardens came around last weekend. A friend and I bought a map, and sat in a cafe planning our route. There were over 30 gardens open in total, and we would never get round them all, so we chose five to start with that had elements that we liked the sound of. We ended up seeing seven, as a couple of them were right next door to others that were open, and we were practically ushered from one to the next. We didn't regret it. We both came away with several ideas for our own gardens. I liked the idea of having several permanent seating places (we tend to drag the same chairs around to different garden spots at the minute). I was also very taken with the idea of a wildlife pond - this has been in the back of my mind since we moved here, but is now definitely on my list of projects for next year. Several gardens had little solar water features, not connected to a pond, and I think this might be something I end up having near the house as well - I do love the sound of running water. There were some lovely flower beds too, and one particularly epic greenhouse that I didn't get a good picture of - it had lighting and heating and a proper plumbed in sink (I don't think I'd go that far myself, but it was glorious to look at). Interestingly, I didn't see any garden that I would have just adopted exactly how it was. There were plenty of elements that I liked, but others I wasn't bothered about at all. I'm looking forward to shaping our garden over the next few years to get it just how we want it - there's still a long way to go yet.
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