Keeping up with the Jones’s when it comes to gardening

It’s always at this time of year when you catch yourself looking over the proverbial neighbour’s garden wall that you start hearing frequent sounds of activity. On doing so you find that he has gone on some kind of plant cultivating mission, with vegetable patches and tomato vines interspersed with Gladeoli and Roses. You look back at your own poor offering of vegetation and sigh with a feeling of inadequacy.

You have never been one for planting and weeding. The rest of the world and his mum may be going green, but it’s something that your fingers are rebelling against furiously. You only so much as have to see a gardening glove to feel threatened.

There are of course plenty of things that you can do with your garden that does not involve weeding or planting. If you feel more comfortable in the house than out of it then why not do something different in your garden. You don’t need to have a traditional English country garden to have a beautiful country garden.

Patios, pergolas, decking and rockeries are just a few of the things that you could incorporate into your garden to make it just as impressive as your neighbours. After all it’s not as if English summers stretch on forever, you need to make the best of every moment. No one wants to do that in a tangled fug of stinging nettles and spiky lawn grass.