John Bullivants garden

[ideasguy]

Well, heres a treat for you!
John sent me some photos back in 2006 and we'd lost contact for a while until he upgraded to IG Pro 5.
Fortunate it was, as he told me about the extensive work he's been doing to his garden in 2007.
Have a look at this set of photos - some of the beds in their first season from a spring planting.
Enjoy - I certainly did!

http://www.ideasforgardens.net/JohnB/JohnBullivantGarden/

[whis4ey]

Great work John
Some terrific photographs there

[JohnB]

Thanks for the kind words. It's always an interesting challenge to develop new areas and see how they evolve over time. Each year I usually take on one or two major projects - either building out fresh, or just helping nature look a little more controlled.

[ideasguy]

Question time John 
What is the shrub, left of the photo #3,  An overview over the steps

and
What are the edging plants, centre front of #9 A shady border
I can see a Hosta just up the path from them.
By the way, if you'd like to change the names of those garden photos, please let me know.

[JohnB]

Photo #3:
The variegated shrub on the left is a Willow that we inherited with the garden - I believe it's a Salix cinerea 'Tricolor'. It's pollarded each year - so in late February it looks like a 6' pole with large lump on the top. That photo was taken late August so it grows pretty vigorously!

Photo #9:
The edging plants at the front are various varieties of Heather. The large rhododendron is "Phyliss Korn" and there's a Crab Apple behind it.

Right now, you can leave the names of the photo's as they are - I'll come up with some alternatives later. My Dad (in Manchester) happened to be doing a search on Google or Yahoo and found this site - he was surprised to see pictures of our garden!

[ideasguy]

Thanks for the additional info John.
Ive used it to update the web site. If you have time, please have a revisit.
Ive hinted that you may provide a photo for Phyllis Korn when she flowers this year 

Other members who are publishing web sites, please note that Ive used part of the the style sheet designed by Laurie.
In the list of plants and photos, note
a) the rollover effect when you pass the mouse over the list
b) the colours when you click a link
c) the colours when you have "visited" a page
These effects were changed with one simple line of code, pointing to a style sheet.
The style sheet uses a web language - Java script.
You dont need to worry about any of these complexities!! Its a simple copy and paste job for the user.
I'll make this available to all ASAP (gotta do those labels for Toby first (GA048), or he'll be giving me a hard time!) 

I had a big smile after I read how your dad "discovered" your web site John!
That made my day! Good to see Google has it indexed so prominently.