Time for Some Gardening

I finished the pergola in Rita's Quiet Corner over the weekend and today I decided to do some 'gardening'. No time to sit on the bench relax against the cushions and put my feet up! In the photo below you can see the climber that I have put growing over the pergola and decided that it would look good growing up the sides of the inner walls too so that when viewed from the front it made a lovely enclosed circle around the bench. I added the beautiful purple flowers that were included in the kit.


And from above...


And from the side .....

Then I added some little bushes, flowers and a little prickly shrub that I cut off some landscaping material that was in a different packet from Rita.

What is that in the foreground at the edge of the step? Look closer....

Its a dandelion! The perfect garden was too alien a concept for me so I needed to add a weed! Just the one mind!

To give an idea of scale here is the dandelion inside my wedding ring!

Now I am off to build the fence to go round the edge.

Ritas Quiet Corner

Yesterday I decided to have a play with the 'Quiet Corner' from Rita. It is a 144th scale little landscape that is just so beautiful and petite. Everything is in it from the base to the flowers for landscaping. I carried on with it this afternoon and am so very happy with my little garden so far.
I built the corner on the little glue jig (from Rita too - thank you Rita!) and applied the brick paper to the inside of the walls.

Then I applied the brick paper to the outside walls and the two little inside walls, which I also topped with the white strips.

I then painted the inner patio and stone step with a grey paint. Placed them on the base and painted the 'grass' with green paint.

The patio in Rita's photograph has lovely crazy paving drawn on in a very effective way, but I decided I wanted a slightly overgrown garden with large stone slabs and grass growing up in between each one, hmmmm could the inspiration for the 'overgrown' bit come from my own little unkempt yard?? I did this by 'drawing my stone slabs with glue onto the patio and then covering with the grass in the kit.

Then 'hey presto' I tipped the loose grass off and this is what was underneath. The slabs are probably WAY out of scale but I like them.

I glued the patio into place in the corner. Just to give you an idea of scale the inner patio is a similar size to an English ten pence piece.

Once I had glued the inner walls and the stone step into place it was really starting to take shape.

Take a closer peek into my quiet corner.

Then I added the grass on the lower part of the garden, and of course there had to be grass growing up along the inner edge of my step - it just needs some HUGE dandelions and it would look like home.

That is where I have got to today. There is still the outer fence to build, a pergola, a bench and of course all those beautiful flowers to add. This kind of gardening I can quite happily handle.