🌱 Tour a pretty DIY cottage garden makeover- DIY Garden Ideas – Behind the Garden Gatee

In the heart of Melbourne’s bustling northern suburbs, Ting and Hannes have masterfully transformed their outdoor space with a DIY cottage garden makeover in just two years! Join me, Chloe from Bean There Dug That, as we step behind the garden gate to explore this epic suburban garden makeover, now teeming with vibrant vegetables, fruit trees, and a tapestry of perennial plants with a cottage garden vibe. This cottage garden tour is the perfect example of the power of DIY gardening in Australia and who knows perhaps this garden has the answer you need for some “do it yourself” garden design at your place!

Situated in Coburg North, this property caught Ting and Hannes’s attention with its large, established fruit trees, becoming the foundation for their DIY gardening dreams. The once-overrun and lack luster spaces now boast a burst of colour and life.

There is bold use of colourful flowering perennial plants and lots of stunning grasses for movement and texture. Climbers adorn nearly every vertical space – so they can take advantage of their small suburban garden space.

Exploring the transformed cottage style garden, you’ll discover four raised veggie beds strategically placed to counter-act the challenges of their heavy clay soil. Ting’s approach is both practical and aesthetically pleasing, featuring DIY touches like an eclectic yet efficient tomato frame and a repurposed timber cubby house, now a two-bed composting system.

In a delightful twist, Ting allows plants from the homegrown compost to thrive in the garden, turning footpaths into lush mazes of cucumbers, tomatoes, and zucchinis during summer.

DIY tee-pees and up-cycled structures throughout the garden contribute to the cottage garden’s unique charm.

Even the once seemingly unappealing expanse of concrete in the frontyard is now softened with plants, so Ting and Hannes’s touches have turned a functional driveway into a potential play area for future generations.

The backyard unfolds beyond a stunning yellow flowering grevillea – that I’m so glad they kept from the original garden. A grapevine arch ushers us into a spacious, sunlit area housing more veggie beds, mature trees, and an oakleaf hydrangea – one of my favourites!

Raised garden beds, featuring various edgings, showcase Ting’s eye for design. A covered patio, an extension of the indoor space, provides a comfortable setting to admire the garden.

The backyard deck offers a different perspective and a pretty view from the kitchen window. The backyard exudes a cottage vibe, with traditional perennial borders surrounding an old-style shed. A towering tree dahlia also commands attention when it’s in full flower.

The charming chook run, home to five chickens, showcases thoughtful DIY and upcycled garden design. Ting’s strategic planting promises a summer spectacle of blooming flowers and dancing grasses.

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In the busy Northern inner suburbs of Melbourne the owners of this Garden have transformed it in Just 2 years to be a productive Paradise filled with veggies fruit trees and lots of plants I’m Chloe from be there dug that let’s go behind the garden Gate we’re in cerg North an inner Northern suburb of Melbourne the owners Ting and hanas purchased this property 2 years ago and they were drawn to it because of its large and established fruit trees but the rest of the garden was quite overrun in parts and other

Spots just lacked color and movement but look what they’ve created now there’s so much color and life in this garden now and Ting doesn’t shy away from things of bright colors check out this Angel’s fishing rod you can really see where it gets its name from can’t you These large established trees were already here over on the nature strip and they do a great job of buffering the house from the busy road Beyond so it makes us feel like we’re in a really private little Oasis here I also love that Ting and hanis haven’t Shi away

From using every vertical space I can spot climbers everywhere on some rusted old panels there’s a Choco Vine that pops up every year they say and it gives them plenty of Chocos as well it might be hard to spot them because there are so many plants

Spilling out of them but in this space there are four raised veggie beds and it’s really important that these are raised because underneath us is really heavy clay soil which makes growing and establishing things near impossible but the raised beds solv that really well I love how they’ve put their own stamp

On this Garden there’s plenty of DIY features everywhere like this really eclectic but really practical tomato frame and hanus also turned his hand to a lot of DIY projects over here in the before photos you’ll notice that there’s a kid’s cubby House of sorts but he’s

Repurposed the timber to create a TW bed composting system which provides them with the compost that they need for their I love just how chocola block all of the veggie beds are Ting is even happy to let things that pop up from the Homegrown compost keep growing in the

Garden which means that come summertime the foot paths often disappear beneath cucumbers and tomatoes and zucchinis that just spill out everywhere but it doesn’t matter the more plants the better one of of my favorite things about making these videos for you guys to inspire you for things in your own

Gardens is that I also take home some tips and advice I’ve always shied away from growing Arty chokes at my place because they can be such huge plants but check out what Ting done here by removing the lower leaves she’s given herself planting space beneath them but

She can still enjoy their flowers and so can the bees how’s this for a side by-side example of two different climbing structures for plants here we’ve got the metal frame structure that you can buy from any good Garden Center and Han’s DIY version with a stick teepee this is

Something that they prefer in this space so they’re moving away from the cage but which style suits your garden better beneath the teepe I can spy a Malibar spinach which Over The Heat Of Summer it will climb up this Frame and in here it looks like a cherry tomato

There’s a great use of a thick mulsh path here that helps suppress weeds and give you somewhere dry to walk also I love the addition of this blue stone edging they picked up these secondhand from Facebook Marketplace and they really helped to define the edges of the

Beds and also raise it up a bit so they can improve the soil where they need to this north-facing sunfield front yard is home to so many fruiting trees and plants let’s take a look at what I can spot so we’ve got an orange right down the back a

Plum a fooa a Choco growing over the fence a big old armman tree here that’s not doing too well but it might come good and an olive tree just to mention a few I’m sure there’s some I’ve missed Ting admits she’s got a bit of a thing

For grasses and in this space alone I can spot three different types this themer here is just magic and its seed heads are so floaty and soft and the contrast between the floaty seeds heads of the grasses and the pretty perennials is just Beautiful they didn’t originally like this l large expanse of concrete but I think you’ll agree that they’ve done a great job of softening it by the addition of things like the salt Bush and the daisies that really Cascade over the edges it’s still a functional driveway space but who knows it might

Become a spot where kids want to play basketball one day with the addition of some Rio mesh this plain Timber fence is now a green wall covered in creepers and these Seaside daisies are just spectacular super hey as well now as we head into the backyard we have to make mention of

This stunning yellow flowering gravila this was in the original garden and I think they’ve done a wonderful job of keeping it and doing it Justice this beautiful old established gra Vine creates a lovely tunnel that welcomes us into the backyard it’s also doing quite a good job of coming over to these rainwater tanks but they actually move from the other side of the garden to give them more growing Space it really opens back up here it’s really pretty there’s loads of plants of course a few more veggie beds taking advantage of those Sunny spots back here this shadier pocket is created thanks to this established mury and another plum tree and down here is some great plants

One of my favorites is the Oakleaf hydranga I love its elongated flowerheads and the leaves in their own right are a real Feature and speaking of planting Pockets back here they’ve used plenty of raised garden beds as well and there’s lots of variation over here looks like some carten steel edges I can see Timber and I can even see recycled edging as well this back deck gives us a lovely different perspective Over the Garden

And it’s obviously a nice spot to sit and relax but the view from that kitchen window is one of their favorites and I can see why this covered patio off the back door really gives you that indoor outdoor room Vibe and there’s plenty of plants in here that we’d normally see growing

Inside but it’s a spot to sit relax and admire your garden you might notice that the grape vine and the apricot are Laden with fruit and Ting tells me that to protect it from Birds they will need to net it but they will do that after we finished filming

There’s some lovely little planting Pockets over here here again is the corten steel edging that’s containing a mixture of plants there’s some love in a Mist there’s a maple above us and some more grasses but one of the things that I’ve seen Ting do a few times around the

Garden is plant directly into the gravel so it seems like a plant is emerging out of it for a pop of green and that’s what’s happened with this bamboo here the backyard has a lovely Cottage vibe to it with traditional perennial borders filled with flowers and of

Course more grasses and I think this ties in really really nicely with the old style shed behind me check out this monster tree daia its trunk must be as thick as my arm and when it flowers it’s big arching flowers come right out from the top be really

Pretty it’s something that’s also a feature from the kitchen window well this has got to be the cutest little shook run I have ever seen this is home to five chickens and as you can see they are very very happy in this little home the Run extends round the

Back of the shed so they’ve got plenty of space as well as their sweet little Hutch now even though everything isn’t yet in flower in the height of Summer there will be flowers everywhere and combined with that movement from the grasses it’s just beautiful even with the raised bed planting

Underneath these large established trees has proved tricky and I can see based on the little tags that Ting has tried a few different plants clearly some of which have not survived so she’s instead gone with plenty of Hardy grasses with their shallow fibrous roots and added some vertical interest this time with a

Thund Bia or blackeyed Susan vine I hope you’ve enjoyed this tour around this highly productive and very pretty Garden in the inner suburbs of Melbourne let me know which was your favorite plant or favorite feature of this Garden in the comments down below don’t forget to like And subscribe because I’ve got plenty more garden tours coming your way

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