Simon's Blog - Creative Gardening

Credit: Dave Harris

Who doesn't love a cheerful shrub!

That's the tree that greets Dave every morning in High Halstow and it's just one of the many bits of clever garden action that have turned up in meridianweather@itv.com inbox.

Amanda Breakspear in Stanford Dingley thought we might like to see her first attempt at making a topiary shape.

The frame is home-made but I'm thinking the wheels aren't!

Debbie Lilley from West Hougham spotted this.

Well who needs snow to have a snowman!

Of course you don’t have to be artistic to make an impact, just being able to write will do fine too.

Amy Todd came across this uplifting hedge in Abingdon.

Here's a bit of natural art from Michael Brown in Eastbourne. He reckons this bush looks like a rabbit.

I can see that.

In a not unrelated incident and Ken Diamond in Chichester thinks that this rosebush has bloomed into the face of a Highland terrier.

And finally thanks to some strategically placed logs, John Cuthbert came across a tree that he thought looked like a swan.