Well, it’s definately smaller than my own patch of land last year, but at least it’s something and I love it. So, while planting yesterday I took photos to share with everybody!

Let’s start with a few establishing shots, shall we (including the lovely gravel driveway I open my door up to)?

Freshly planted, so the perennials in the left hand corner are looking a little dinky, but with the area these boxes are in I suspect they’ll grow quite large. All within these two pictures are: “white swan” echinacea, shasta daisy, coreposis, gingko tree, rosemary, tri-coloured sage, lemon balm, green globe basil, green bell pepper, early girl tomato, sweet basil and dill.

Here’s my bay, this guy’s two years old this year. Unfortunately somehow a bit of the new growth has been burned so it hasn’t grown yet this year, but I see a little bit of new growth peeping through the burnt buds, so I’m hoping it’ll have a growth spurt soon.

This is possibly my favourite plant that I have (but don’t tell the others…). It’s my little gingko tree, also two years old. Last year all it had were about 10 HUGE leaves, this year it’s taking a bit more of a gingko-esque look.

And, some lovely little green globe basil.

My green bell pepper, early girl tomato, dill and sweet basil all still have to be potted up. That’s what I plan on doing today. When I was buying my plants last week I overestimated how much room I had in my planter boxes - but isn’t that always the way.

As for the veggies, I’m going to ask the tenants upstairs if they mind me throwing them into the little side garden. I’ve NEVER had luck with tomatoes in containers, but I’d really like to have my own fresh tomatoes this year.