Hi from yorkshire, uk!

[JoJoYorkshire]

Hi

I live in Yorkshire in the UK (where spring is very slow to get going this year!) and have a house with a small garden for the first time! I've done some gardening in the past (mainly vegetables), but thought I should join some forums for a bit of advice regarding the huge amount of stuff I don't know! I'm pretty much starting from scratch as the garden is covered in paving and gravel, so I'm getting rid of lots to make room for plants and flowers. It's North/East facing so could be a bit of a challenge, but a little of it does get a reasonable amount of sun out of the shadows of the houses.

Looking forward to learning lots and reading about everyone else's gardens.

Jo

 

[Becky]

Hi Jo, welcome to the forums! Great to have you here I know what you mean about spring getting off to a slow start! Sounds like you have got a lot planned for this year, hopefully we can help! Looking forward to hearing more about it.

 

[zigs]

Welcome to Gardening Forums

We're about 5 weeks behind down in Somerset.

 

[JoJoYorkshire]

Thank you for the welcome! I can well believe Spring being 5 weeks behind, it's May and we are still getting some pretty decent frosts, it's still around freezing a lot of nights. It's frustrating because I want to make the most of more daylight, but at this rate midsummers day is going to be upon us before I can even get anything going properly!

I know plants are actually quite good most of the time at making up for the late start, but I'm starting to lose patience.