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Friday 8 June 2012

Great Garden Moments!

Furniture Village are running the Great Garden Moments Competition at the moment - the prize is a fantastic garden table and chairs set, as well as £250 Waitrose vouchers!

So here's my entry:

Well, if I'm honest, the garden is really my husband's domain - I enjoy sitting in it and soaking up the sun (when we have any) whilst admiring the beautiful plants - but he does all the hard work!

He spends any spare time he has in the garden, and the results are definitely worth it - we have a fantastic array of beautiful flowers, a lovely green lawn, and best of all, some rather tasty fruit and vegetables to eat! Another bonus is that the children enjoy growing their own fruit, and can even be persuaded to eat their own veg... and of course the lawn comes in handy for a spot of football and cricket practice!

My favourite garden moments have to be those when the weather's warm and fine, the kids are playing happily in the garden, and I'm relaxing with a good book whilst sipping something cool...
My husband would say that his favourite garden moments are those when he's busy digging, pruning, and planting.
My children say that their great garden moments are when our friendly squirrel comes visiting, or when they're picking their strawberries ready to eat, or when they're watching the birds at the bird table, or maybe just when they're having a game of football with their friends - so many great moments to choose from!

We're really that we have a lovely garden to enjoy- it's not the biggest in the village, but we think it's one of the best!

Here's a few photos of our garden and the things we enjoy doing in it - sometimes looking lovely, sometimes (like when we did our extension) looking less than lovely!


Here's my favourite corner of the garden....


and here's the garden in full building mode!


our apple tree provides us with some great apples...



despite the abuse it gets!



some of our tomatoes.....


and our raspberries!







My older son took this picture of a flower in the garden.


and this is a great memory of a birthday party in the garden (5 years ago now!)


Relaxing with friends...


anyone for cricket?


or bubble blowing?


The cat, of course, thinks she owns the garden!


chocolate and wine in the garden - another of my favourite combinations....




So many Great Garden Moments!

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