Source: A Place Imagined
My four, yes four, Christmas trees are still fully decorated, the kitchen cupboards remain stubbornly coated in paper snowflakes and I'm about to bake a batch of mince pies. It would be an understatement to say I'm a bit of a fan of Christmas and, quite frankly, I'm going to milk my full 12 days worth.
Sadly though, I will have to think about moving on tomorrow and, for me, this is going to involve a little garden planning. I usually ruminate on ideas in January in the hope that I can have come to some conclusions and pulled my finger out before we're well into spring. This year I have more pressure than usual as I'm due to open my garden in six months time as part of the National Gardens Scheme and I want to add a few more areas of interest, especially for children.
If you're looking for a little design inspiration, I would recommend stopping by Pinterest. This is a kind of virtual pin board where you can collect and organise images. Although you can apply for an invite to be a 'pinner' there is still a lot to find by browsing other people's boards.
Of course it covers everything under the sun, not just gardens, but there are plenty of pinned images with a horticultural flavour. Rochelle Greyer, editor of the new online Leaf Magazine and the woman behind Studio G blog always has brilliant boards to browse - you can check them out here. For more specific kids garden ideas I've put together this board (which includes the playhouse image above) but there are plenty more out there - just put in your search terms and then look at either pins or boards that use those keywords.
Happy pinning. I'm off to roll some pastry and hum a few carols.
Wow what a cool playhouse, our kids would love that! Christmas is fading fast here with just a kiloweight of Christmas cake to get through now!
Posted by: Damo | January 07, 2012 at 07:23 AM
Love, love, love your board. Lots of inspiration and great ideas for me to use for the school gardening group. And I want to live in that playhouse!
Posted by: Lorna Watson | January 07, 2012 at 11:37 AM
That was my thought,too.
Posted by: Baby Cots | January 09, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Damo - Pah! Only a kiloweight? *gets all competitive*
Lorna - Thanks Lorna - I just hope you get further than me. So far, it's all inspiration and absolutely no perspiration in terms of turning any of these into reality.
Posted by: Dawn | January 09, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Baby Cots - I fear it may take bijou living to a whole new level...
Posted by: Dawn | January 09, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Thank you for the link to your pinterest!
Stacey
Posted by: stacey weichert | January 14, 2012 at 06:21 PM
Stacey - you are most welcome. I hope it proves useful.
Posted by: Dawn | January 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Thae playhouse is wonderful, i bet kids love it. Its like something from a fairytail.
Posted by: Gardening Birmingham | April 20, 2012 at 03:46 AM