Daphne Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 We have a small kitchen which is dual aspect. Out the front is a very small road so I sometimes get a cheery wave from a tractor whilst making the tea in my PJs There was a wide strip of weed infested gravel between the house and the road but we are in the midst of getting some stone hard standing put down with a raised bed in the middle so I can look out on something pretty Out the back I should be overlooking a bed with a rose and a camellia in it, but the encroaching greenery from various climbing plants and an olive means it's more like being in a greenhouse waiting for the triffids. I need to start wielding the loppers. What can you all see? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursula123 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 A derelict farmhouse, which belongs to us. Some day we may get to renovate it, it is covered in a beautiful wisteria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 The shed, abutting the fence, which is 'stained' green and has rampant honeysuckle up one side of it. Needs cutting back but has all died at the base with fresh growth just on top so I think its now an 'all or nothing' job On the step to the shed I have put trailing lobelia in a couple of pots in blues, pinks and purples and ditto hanging baskets on the fence next to it. I always have pots of something or other in the little gravelled area outside the kitchen window as seem to spend lots of time standing at the sink! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 My back garden and some roofs. It's a nice garden and always busy with birds so not too bad. Its pretty much the same as the photo in the other thread but a bit more down the sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 The garden full of pots and the other woman in my husband's life - his fig tree. I can just see hen house but the girls are behind the rampant raspberry canes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 I see my greenhouse and the garden - it slopes downward and I get a glimpse of the veggie patch. The top lawn is covered with "weeds" but I call it my wild flower meadow (goes with the one in the front which is covered with a variety of bees) and in front of that is a pergola with bird feeders, roses, a golden hop and some pink variegated jasmine. The ground has assorted plants. We face west so the sun comes round in the afternoon. And if the weather is obliging I get really lovely sunsets. I also see a lot of icky weather approaching as we are fairly high up too. Although behind the fence is a road and down below are more houses but I can't see much of those when the trees are in leaf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 My girls Our big kitchen window looks onto the back garden - I can see just about all of it, then a couple of rooftops and the steam railway nestled down among the trees beyond it Apart from the garden itself, I think the view from the kitchen window went a long way to selling the house to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Mine is a Victorian terrace, so I look out on some plants in chimney pots and a brick wall, which separates my garden from the access alley. OH has a much better view from his - out over the millstream and river Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Kitchen window 'proper', i.e. over the sink - next door's fence and the driveway. I keep the blind pulled down most of the time. Kitchen door and bay window/French doors in the dining half of the kitchen look to the back of the house, so I can see the whole of the patio and garden. In my last house the window only looked over the side return, when I had the kitchen done up I reinstated a window at the back and vowed never again to have a house where you couldn't see the garden. It's a constant (and constantly changing) delight to me, even though the garden is a mess at the moment and needs a lot of tidying up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 this time of year mainly the grape vine and an Ashmeads Kernel Apple tree but mainly the grape vine as it's badly in need of a hair cut as are all the fruit trees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newcountrygirl Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 looking out of my kitchen window I can see my herb garden, lots of tall trees and my chicken run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandmashazzie Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I can see to one side the summer house,which we put in as a study/relaxing area,but has become a dumping room for toys etc,the WIR,kids play area and trampoline and huge trees belonging to the country park beside us.I would dearly love to prune them back a bit and wonder how far I would get with my diesel and steel nail (supposed methods to kill trees)before being caught. I try to find beauty in them,but to me they are oppressive. The other window looks over marshland to Belfast Lough and is very beautiful. We watch the Liverpool ferries chugging along and now Belfast is on the cruise ship manifesto, some lovely cruise ships sailing by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I think you can legally prune back to your boundary if you return the clippings (ie; chuck them back over the fence!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I can see to one side the summer house,which we put in as a study/relaxing area,but has become a dumping room for toys etc,the WIR,kids play area and trampoline and huge trees belonging to the country park beside us.I would dearly love to prune them back a bit and wonder how far I would get with my diesel and steel nail (supposed methods to kill trees)before being caught. I try to find beauty in them,but to me they are oppressive. The other window looks over marshland to Belfast Lough and is very beautiful. We watch the Liverpool ferries chugging along and now Belfast is on the cruise ship manifesto, some lovely cruise ships sailing by. never heard of the diesel and steel nail method but I've heard of using copper nails it's a time consuming method thro' as the nails have to go all the way around the trunk with the heads just touching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 From my kitchen window I can see green everywhere, my garden needs a really bad pruning, we have larch trees, apple tree, birch trees,Buddleias white and purple, purple clematis a fuschia flowering, rowan trees , a massive hosta and various other lower shrubs and sometimes we even see some free ranging chickens if we are lucky!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Mainly a beech hedge which runs at an angle along our boundary. It changes colour all year and is often full of sparrows. It is particularly beautiful in the autum sunshine which fills the kitchen with warm light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Out of my kitchen window I can see the bomb site that is my garden. Its mid renovations (we are in the middle of putting in a sleeper retaining wall at the very end), but dh popped his calf muscle so thats on hold. On the left I can also see the pergola covered with a beautiful wisteria flowering for the third time this year! The first flowers were got by an unexpected frost. It also has a vine of some sort taking over what it can. Currently its trying to consume my beautiful blue green shed I think it may have grapes, but it will be going as its encouraging to many wasps. On the other side I have the roses that were already here; one a gorgeous orange but my fave is a yellow one which smells all sherbety and divine. I can just see a blue delphinium which will be going to its new home in the front garden as soon as I finish battling the brambles, bind weed and other plants which keep trying to grow despite all my root pulling. Beyong the back fence, I can just see some flats (my planned silver birch copse will get rid of that view) and then its the lights from the rugby pitch and blue sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 The shed, abutting the fence, which is 'stained' green and has rampant honeysuckle up one side of it. Needs cutting back but has all died at the base with fresh growth just on top so I think its now an 'all or nothing' job I have had great success with cutting back leggy honesuckles. They grow new green shoots from the base so I would go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Thanks! Perhaps all is not lost! Now, where did I put the secateurs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
