Chapter 1: My Inspiration
T.V. Show.
In England here we had a TV show called Groundforce which was about a team of experts that would go to a persons home and renovate thier garden from a waste land into a scene of beauty with nice full grown shrubs put in, an immaculate lawn, patio decking etc within 2 to 3 days. It starred Alan Titchmarsh a celebrity gardener and Tony Walch who is quite an expert in the field of DIY .Now that sounds all very marvelous but not every one can have a team of experts come and renovate their garden for them. To hire private contractors to do the work is quite expensive. It would be more fun to do the work yourself and when finished you can step back and say " All my own work".
The Benefits.
There are 2 main benefits to doing the work yourself. 1 is the fact that any outdoor activity has quite a few obvious health benefits and second, watching the progress from day to day as your future garden of eden takes shape .The big hurdle is to go into the garden and actually start the work but you have to go out with a positeve attitude.
Hampton Court Flower Show.
Hampton court, for any one who is not familiar with our english heritage is a palace built by king Henry Viii over 5 hundred years ago. It has a splendid palace that is a tourist attraction open to the public and several acres of of gardens plus a huge area of parklands in the surrounding areas. Every year they host a flower show where large flower beds are professionally planted and displayed for the general public to visit. The displays are quite lavish and beautiful and and boast quite a large variety of plants. There are many other places that host these displays and any one who needs a little help in the inspiration department, it is highly recommended to give them a visit.
No Interest.
For quite a long time i never really had much interest in gardening. To me a flower was just simply something that grew in the garden.But back in 2015 i was seriously looking at my garden in general. At the back i had an old garden shed that was being used to store unwanted items like bits of old furniture etc. There was a lot of bramble and weed that was in excess of nearly 4 feet high. The garden fence on one side was just about standing up with large gaps that had rotted away with climbiing weed on it. There was also a pile of junk at the front of the garden that had accumulated from years of " Put it in the garden for now". There was only one word for it, it was a" DUMP".
