Quick garden revamp tips
It’s that time of year again. The sun has just popped out and now you’re thinking about BBQ’s. But the garden looks neglected. These are my favourite quick garden revamp tips to get you out there, drinking something chilled and enjoying the weather. While it lasts.
Lighting
Every year at Christmas I love how our house is transformed with the simple use of lighting and every year I think. I must put up lights in the garden this summer. Well this year I’m going to do it. They add a great atmosphere to any space. Making it just perfect for entertaining and enjoying the warmer evenings. This set of outdoor bulb string lights is 30ft long and at £26.99 is a good buy to get the party started.
Revamp old furniture
Want a new look but can’t afford new furniture. Most people throw away furniture that is still in perfectly good condition. Be more environmentally friendly and easier on your wallet by revamping what you already have with paint. This paint comes in a fab range of colours and at £12.57 a litre you’ll have plenty to spruce up a table and chairs.
Quick Garden comfort
Once you’ve made your old furniture look fab with a new lick of paint. Ramp up the comfort with these floral cushions £12.99. Plus they are waterproof, so no need to panic if you leave them out in the rain.
Herb garden
If you are going to spend money on new plants for your garden. Make sure they are really working for their money. Choose plants such as herbs. That look great, but also smell amazing and are edible! This set of 10 mixed herbs is a great way to get you started. £8.49
My favourites are:
Mint.
Best kept in a pot as it is so easy to grow it will spread around your garden if you plant it out. I love mint so much we have two varieties, sweet mint and pepper mint outside my kitchen door. I love using mint in pea soup, mixed with cucumber and sparkling water for a summer cooler and chopped and sprinkled over strawberries.
Bay
So simple to grow. I had a bay tree at our old house and was sad to leave it. So before we moved I took green cuttings of it. Sniped off a couple of inches, removed some of the leaves, ducked them in rooting liquid and potted them up.
We’ve been in out house for four years now and I have two splendid bay tree, which would have cost me a fortune if I’d bought them from the garden centre.
Bay is great fresh or dried for cooking. I also love using it in flower arrangements and when I make wreaths.
Chives
My children are not onion fans and often spend ages picking onion out of dishes I’ve cooked them even if I have chopped them really small. Yet, they love chives. I regularly find them chomping on them in the garden or smell their breath and know the chive patch has been attacked.
They have a mild onion flavour and are great in cheese sandwiches and potato salad.
Oregano
This is probably my most frequently used herb, it reminds me of Greece and I use it so much in my cooking as I love Mediterranean food. Best to have it planted somewhere where it gets a lot of sun as this helps bring out the flavour more.
Lavender
Not only is it lovely to look at with beautiful purple flowers, it smells amazing when brushing past it. Plant in near a path to get wafts of scent every time. I like to pick and dry it for lavender bags in the cupboards and drawers. I have also used it to make lavender sugar and shortbread.
Plant up pots
Picked up your beautiful new herbs? Show them off in these fab pots. This set of 12 galvanised pots are only £12.49 and when grouped together they make a fab statement.
Double your space
My final idea for how to create the perfect summer space on a budget is genius! I want one for my garden I just have to find the right spot. We all use mirrors in our homes to make the spaces feel bigger, don’t we? So why not use them in our gardens! This outdoor garden acrylic non shatter mirror sheet. Comes in at 4ft x 2ft for £32.99 and it the perfect foil for making the garden look bigger. I just cant wait to see who ends up trying to walk through it!
Garden revamp tools
You may have all the plans now for a quick garden revamp. But you need to make sure you have the right tools to do the job. This set of hand tools £18.66 which include Hand Digging Rake, Shovel, Trowel and Secateurs for pruning back the roses. Is just the ticket.
For tackling bigger jobs, like taming the hedges. You need bigger tools. It’s well worth investing in something like the Von Haus Cordless Pole Hedge Trimmer £64.99 as it made light work for hubby to get the over grown hedge back into good shape.
Simple really to trim the hedges, but it makes such an impact to your garden. He now calls it his favourite garden tool and was recommending it to his family last weekend after doing all the hedges in one afternoon.
It extends to over 2 meters tall and the blades can be angled to do the sides and a level top of the hedges. Plus it’s electric which makes it much more lightweight and easy to handle then a petrol one.
Finally protect your hands and arms from cuts and calluses with this beautiful gauntlet gloves. They come in blue and pink and are made of premium suede and leather. I had mine personalised in pink, to stop the hubby from pinching them! Available from I JUST LOVE IT for £39.99
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Sadly not a lot, it is very small.
My favourite thing about my garden is the two tree-sized camellias, one pink and one red.
My water feature and the seating on my patio.
The floral displays – pays to make the effort
I love my view across the countryside
I love my garden bench, it is a long large one and is perfect for sitting together to catch up with the days news, and looking at the garden
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Not having one, LOL, entering for my mother-in-law who loves gardening – we live in a flat so a couple of window boxes on the balcony are about it for us 😀
My favourite thing about my garden are the beautiful flowers and the space that my son can run around
My pond it’s quite large and raised and has running water and a lot of yellow irisis in it. I love feeding the fish and listening to the water.
our garden is a communal garden shared with other maisonettes, and we all cone together to make it look nice and keep the flowers in bloom x
i like where the sun hits in the morning. its a great place to sit
i love my roses, ive 6 and they are huge growing so well, they are near my seating area when there is a breeze it smells so nice
My favourite thing about our garden is the fact that we get such a wide variety of wildlife from green woodpeckers to hedgehogs – and the occasional fox or deer when a bit of the fence blows down!
I love planting nice flowers ans watching them grow to their best
The thing I love most about our garden is that everything we seem to plant takes off really well without us needing to tend to them much. We’ve ended up with some gorgeous plants because of it.
I love that it is a bit miss match with all the plants and flowers and all the colours are different!
My garden has a little ” secret garden” feel to it. It starts off as a patio area surrounded but trees and bushes that leads to the rest of it.
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I love to watch insects come to feed on the few flowers that I have managed to grow in my tiny garden.
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All the love and care we have put into it, and how it’s grown, we put a little pond in last year and that’s been lovely to watch all the frogs come
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The position of it! Surrounded by beautiful countryside and a haven for wildlife, squirrels, birds including woodpeckers, pheasants, doves, foxes, deers and hedgehogs!
The amazing amount of organic fruit and veg hubby manages to grow is my favourite thing about our garden. The flowers he plants amongst the veg come a close second!
The wildlife – listening to different species of beautiful birds – bliss.
the veg that my hubby grows
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I love it all! Mostly it is the wildlife that visits us every day – badgers, foxes, hedgehogs, birds, bees.
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Nice to relax on sun lounger in our garden
My Oak Tree.
That it is wildlife friendly and that sometimes we have 4 hedgehogs stay in the hedgehog houses!
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The array / variety of colours of the plants and flowers.