My Design Style or Lack There Off

There are alot of ways to plant up your flower garden, ways that have been tried and tested by the garden greats and pro's of this world that will give the required look you are looking for in your garden. I have no style at all and this does not apply just to the garden! People sit down and meticulously plan out there borders and what plant will go where etc, but for some reason I am incapable of doing this. This probably stems from my general ignorance about plants and shrubs and how to apply them to a garden to create a certain effect. Furthermore my preference towards plants that produce something edible far out weighs my love of flowers and foliage most of the time.

So thus far the flower garden has been slightly neglected, but I have stated to make amens. Last year I did chuck in a few spring and summer bulbs just to add a little colour to the general dirt theme I had going on and it certainly made it look mildly better. This year I have decided that those dirty flower beds need more putting in. New additions this year are Lavender (Hidcot & Munstead) in a curved block part of the beds, in the hope it looks a little something like this....

Well sort of like that, the fluffy blue swathes of Lavender minus the well tended box hedge in the back ground. Instead my Discovery apple tree will stand in the centre of this Lavender ORGY! In my head it looks good, the results in the soil have yet to be seen. 

Lupins, a garden favourate! Are in there too, they remind me off the garden from my childhood so are very welcome, these are just your standard types but I would love to get my hands on some special variety's one day. The look like this right now...

The late winter does not seem to have hampered them much and the are now shooting into life. Oh you can just see the red terracotta roof tiles I used to create a raised border, these were left at the house when we moved in and after weighing up the cost of some type of lawn border I took the cheaper free option and used these instead.

You can see the tiles better on this one, and also the terrible state of the flower beds. The Stainless Steal balls do nothing to enhance the scene! Hopefully all the wild flower seed I chucked discarded everywhere will improve this a little. The little round bush was in the ground when we arrived and I hold a general hatred for it but I am obliged to keep it in on orders from the girlfriend.

You will never see this mix of planting in any garden you ever visit or see on TV! A world first no doubt, the stars of this netted show are Dog Daisy which envelopes the sunken trough containing a Kiwi Vine! The Kiwi is the stick like thing protruding like a lost earthworm from the soil. Will i ever get Kiwi fruit from this vine? I bloody hope so! It is an acid loving plant hence the reason i have sunk a trug into the soil in an attempt to keep my PH balance of acid and normal separate. I was given half a ton of dog daisy from a garden friend who was thinning out his own and I really liked the look of it. Free or cheap plants is the general theme or the garden so far.