How does your garden grow?

Not very well at all actually!

This is our back yard when we moved in. It still looks pretty much the same. When we got the keys in July, our focus was on getting the inside sorted and then before we knew it, it was October so the garden has been a bit neglected really. Now that the days are getting lighter and the daffodils are peeking through the ground, we are getting excited about our little outdoor space. We don't have a lawn or any flowerbeds, so we will be making use of containers and building some of our own too. I've been scouring Pinterest and my favourite interior design websites for garden ideas.

I love this - it would look great hanging against a wall too. You could paint the gutters really bright colours to brighten up the garden. I love the idea of having a really bright garden - it doesn't all have to be green. The DIY to it can be found here.

Tins as plant containers! Again, a cute way to add colour to the garden too. This was found via here.

We want to make our own planters like this so we can plant vegetables and I love the idea of being able to move them around. Again, I'd paint this a really nice bright colour. This is from a really good DIY here.

I found these via Apartment Therapy - I am a bit besotted with the idea of old wine crates as containers but looking on eBay, the postage is all really expensive. It makes me wish that we drank wine so that we could bulk buy wine and use the crates for the garden! If anyone in the Liverpool area does drink wine and is willing to drink wine and donate the crates for me, just let me know, yeah? 


Is anyone else as excited for getting their gardens ready for Spring? Let me know what you have planned!