Quick ways to do up your garden for summer + WIN £100 Wickes gift card

There’s so much I would like to do in my garden. The starting point would be to define flower beds and get some colour growing into. I would then like to start growing some veggies too

I’d like to build some raised beds for planting lettuce tomatoes and green beans

My garden is an ongoing project and firstly I would like to add more plant pots with lovely flowers around my patio area. I would also create borders and lay down slate chippings. I was thinking also about a small herb garden area where I will grew fresh herbs for my cooking. My old shed would also get painted ,then lawn and patio treated with weedkiller. All is needed to be done to make beautiful and relaxing garden for my family to enjoy and spend a quality time.

as we are getting older, a more manageable flower bed

I have just bought a house with my first garden!
Love to make it our own, bright flowerbeds, a herb garden and some chalky pastel painted Benches and planters!

The old and wobbly patio!

My garden is currently in need of a make over! It look tired and messy! I would love to buy some decking for outside the patio and plant some lovely plants and flowers to brighten it up! Some nice modern flower pots would look lovely too

Trees need pruning, borders to be tidied up, lawn needs attention to get rid of moss and weeds, paved patio to be replaced, and that is just the start!

I would love to add some wood chippings down the bottom of the garden and fence off the 3 x unsightly bins! They really do ruin the atmosphere of the garden on sunny day.
Ooh and some of the fake flower fence screen – to stop the nosy neighbours 🙂

I would love to install a decking area with seating for the family

We have a playhouse but no kids! Therefore, I’d love to replace it with decking.

I want to build a playhouse for my dogs! Give them something to sit on top of, with a tunnel and a tyre to play with, and somewhere to shelter when it is hot.

I’d love to regenerate our lawn after years of doggy abuse!

I’d love a greenhouse to grow my own produce and to be able to propagate my own plants.

Love a greenhouse to grow my own veg and to be able to propagate my own plants.

I am desperate to redo the lawn ,it is full of moss.Now it has bare patches everywhere that I have put moss killer and it looks a mess.

We are working on our garden now cutting ut all back as its a mess! We want to put in some patio for a hottub and plant lots of flowers and create a floral archway at the end. We possibly want to make a pond too.

We have some bare batches in the lawn, I’d love to get those filled in and make the place look a bit more colourful & comfortable.

We have wanted to put raised borders in our garden for ten years but we don’t have the money or space. There are some great ideas in this blog post.

I’d love to build a little water feature and also add Wild meadow flower garden area with bee and butterfly friendly flowers

Our small front garden is virtually dead due to very rocky soil so it needs digging out new topsoil adding and new turf

At the bottom of my garden i have two steep slopes, i want to weed them, full of dock and make one side of path, a ponds and wildflower arean and other side a pumpkin patch! to do this i need retaining walls and a hoe!!

We are planning to replace our old patio with decking and a pergola with screening and raised bed.

It would be great to create a hedgehog haven at the bottom of our garden. It means levelling out a raised bed and many trips to the tip to get rid of rubble but it’ll be brilliant when done.

I’d love a fence, at the moment ours has holes in it and I feel overlooked by my next door neighbours

I would like to add a wooden arch with climbing roses on either side

I would like to add some flower beds to add more colour with cottage garden type flowers to will attract more bees and butterflies.

I would love to create a wildlife pond to help all my garden wildlife visitors it is so important to help our beleaguered wildlife and our gardens are a valuable resource for them.

Would change the edgings on my flower borders, used cheap and nasty wood edgings which seem to be falling apart

I’d love to add a pond and to also finish our decking area!

New fencing as the old one is on its last legs.

Our patio is only two slabs deep so we are unable to use it for a table and chairs. Would love a new patio to be laid.

We have a large garden that is very bare so I’d like to create areas with various plants, and flowers to inject colour, as well as to encourage more bees, and butterflies into it.

I would lay down astroturf |I hate mowing the lawn

We’ve just redone our front and rear gardens over the last two or three years. We could do with about a ton of 20mm stone chippings to finish a couple of areas off!

I’d love to set up some perenial flower beds rather than relying on annuals to create a garden that will improve with age

My garden is a mess
Causes me so much stress
We need flowers in our beds
Yellow,pink and reds
The shed is full of rot
From rain and hail and whatnot
So we need to start from scratch
Or perhaps make a vegetable patch.

After many years of neglect from the multitude of transient tenants before us, both my flatmate and I, along with no help at all from the army of neighbouring cats, are looking to ‘lovingly’ tackle the ‘London soil’ that is our new garden and turn it into a vibrant and relaxing mini urban retreat.

Our garden shed is in a sad state and a new coat of paint would make the world of difference to our garden.

I want to clear the weeds and general rubbish from the beds and plant some new shrubs and climbers (we have trellis against the fences, just need something to grow up it now!)

I’d like to improve my lawn areas. Parts are in shade for most of the day due to large hedges so there’s a lot of moss. I’m thinking that cutting deep curves into these areas and planting shade loving plants will look better.

I would love to rip out the stinging nettles at the back of my fence and build a hedgehog and insect sanctuary. I would also love a bird table, I love the wildlife in my garden

lawns need sorting more weeds than grass

My garden is quite large and mainly down to lawn. In the autumn I hope to be putting a substantial part down to wild flower meadow

Our fence is literally falling down – it’s propped up in some places and pulled into place in others. In addition we have some holes in the border where plants have died and I’d love to replace these, add some lighting and make the garden a place to enjoy.

I would love a window box in which I would grow vibrantly coloured tumbling lobelia.
I would also love a bistro table and chairs that I would place in a shady corner.

I’d love a new lawn.

I would love to erect a new perimeter fence.

I would like to get our uneven lawn sorted out, and put in a lovely bench to sit on.

My crazy paved winding path is due for pressure washing and re-grouting as necessary.I need trellis to spread along the garage walls,to fill with lovely trailing plants,I can then purchase a new patio set,making it the garden that everyone loves to sit in.

I would like to be rid of all the ivy that keeps growing and then have a nice wooden trellis for my climbing rose.

My lawn has been scorched and scratched by our new pup . There’s patches of burnt grass where she piddles! I need to treat it before there’s no grass left!

We need to sort our fencing out! We planned to change it when we moved in 8 years ago, and it still looks like it’ll be knocked down in every gust of wind!

My garden is too high-maintenance. I need to reconfigure it.

I want to make a safe area for my girls to include a mud kitchen and an outdoor chalk board. I also fancy having a go at painting a mural on the fence.

I’m currently thinking of using the log roll to mark up an area, and then I’m hoping to bark it so they can use it rain or shine.

I’ve got a lovely summer house that needs some TLC. It’s currently full of junk and roof needs fixing. Would love to spruce it up and bring it back to life. My 2 year old would prob claim it as hers once its done!!

I’d love to be able to plant up my raised beds to get a bit of colour where debris used to be. The garden got neglected while the kitchen and bathroom were being done

would love to have some decking in garden

id love to put a new pond in my garden and a new patio

We have a horrible old pebble dash garage. I’d love to paint it a pale grey so it doesn’t stand out so much against all the grey paving we have down!

I’d like a small flowing water feature to make the garden more relaxing and ensure any visiting wildlife always have somewhere to drink.

I want to improve our patio. It has been created by the previous occupants using wood and pebbles and now really needs bolstering up and leveling to create a more permanent solution. It is quite large so, we will probably think about creating slightly different zones and planting once it is not at risk of collapse.

I’d like to get rid of all the straight edges and get some curves and nice edging put in.

I want to remove a tatty front lawn and replace it with a large raised bed that will be used to grow fruit (berries) and salads.

Our garden is like a meadow! It’s also on a steep hill and goes up in three levels over about an acre. We’ve only just moved in so we have lots of ideas on how to make it more family friendly. I want to make it more family friendly, with little areas for sitting down and taking in the view!

I WOULD LOVE TO REPLACE MY POTS WITH SOME OF YOUR LOVELY ONES AS THEY ARE A BIT OLD

My garden is pretty soulless and I would love to add some bright plantsin pots and hanging baskets.

the lawn needs to be leveled out to flat

Need to get some good, sharp cutting tools to clear the jungle at the bottom of the garden. An edger to neaten the lawn, then turn over the beds ready for new plants !!!
When all that’s done a nice recliner.

A new shed or some large storage boxes

I’d like to find a way for my garden to accommodate two dogs and a footie playing teenager, whilst still resembling a garden that I can enjoy!!

We live in a new build and have only recently got round to putting grass down, I’d love to now get some plants, flowers and a water feature into my garden.

We’ve got a newborn baby, so our project for the summer is to make it in to a nice space for when he’s toddling around,especially tidying up the flower bed and the patio.

We would love to put some borders in and have some proper flower beds

I have plans to lay artificial grass to make it safer than patio slabs for my 2 year old to run around on!
I’d also love a new fence, and maybe a shed for storage as our house is bursting at the seams!

We need to pave the end of the garden so we can take advantage of it being a sun trap

A new uniform paved patio area, rather than the variety of different paving slabs that is there now!

I have too much empty space in my garden, need to lay out a couple of features like a gravel garden and some decking to fill it up

Is love for my grass to be less boggy. It takes ages to dry once it’s been raining.

Our decking desperately needs repairing

I would love to add a water feature but I don’t think I have the room.

My lawn is looking a mess, I’d love to be able to re-turf it

My project is to reshape a small stream at the bottom of my garden! We inherited it when we purchased the house last year! Its ran by an electric pump which we have finally got it working but I’d love to restone the edges and plant some new plants to bring a new lease of life to the area!

I just cleared the garden of my new house, that was a mess, let me tell you. Have put in a BBQ pit as suggested but one thing not mentioned is that you need to get rid of the waste and the local tip won’t always take it. I used https://fullhouseclearance.com/Barnehurst-DA7/ so if you need a recommendation go for them.