Spend at lot of my time these days in the garden.
The main garden is undergoing a make over. Have cleared around 200 m2 of bushes from around the edge. Good old shovel and spade! 80% of the bushes have been moved out to the edge og the garden and are slowly coming on and filling some of the holes.
Here are some general view across the garden:
The veggie garden, Its the first season with this, Before we just had some raised beds, the black boxes you can see in front of the barn. More about those later!
Behind the Green house, are the soft frugts Gooseberries, Black currents, raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, cranberry... think thats all lol. There is also two pear trees and two plum!
Our "little" house! The brick built is the actual house, The white one facing out to the garden has the man cave and the good lady's training room. The other white building is a rather run down 'stable' Which at som point in time is going to get taken down and built up as an Orangery!
The biggest challenge so far. Turning a huge lawn into something a little more interesting. One of the good things about living in a farming area. Plenty of field stones. The hard part is collecting them. Putting them down is the easy bit...... sort of.
If I recall there are about 12 Rhododendrons and Eight maybe ten Japanese maples of various types. Still working on the stonework. Need to get some more stones in! Only about 150m left to do
Carina so wanted a Wisteria so muggins was tasked with building a pergola. Shade in the morning then the sun comes around at about 10am. Time for a pause.
Didn't do all the work setting the posts. I had a helper! I'm sure he thinks his a dog.
I'll give it a break now and if you like I can post som more later!
The main garden is undergoing a make over. Have cleared around 200 m2 of bushes from around the edge. Good old shovel and spade! 80% of the bushes have been moved out to the edge og the garden and are slowly coming on and filling some of the holes.
Here are some general view across the garden:
The veggie garden, Its the first season with this, Before we just had some raised beds, the black boxes you can see in front of the barn. More about those later!
Behind the Green house, are the soft frugts Gooseberries, Black currents, raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, cranberry... think thats all lol. There is also two pear trees and two plum!
Our "little" house! The brick built is the actual house, The white one facing out to the garden has the man cave and the good lady's training room. The other white building is a rather run down 'stable' Which at som point in time is going to get taken down and built up as an Orangery!
The biggest challenge so far. Turning a huge lawn into something a little more interesting. One of the good things about living in a farming area. Plenty of field stones. The hard part is collecting them. Putting them down is the easy bit...... sort of.
If I recall there are about 12 Rhododendrons and Eight maybe ten Japanese maples of various types. Still working on the stonework. Need to get some more stones in! Only about 150m left to do
Carina so wanted a Wisteria so muggins was tasked with building a pergola. Shade in the morning then the sun comes around at about 10am. Time for a pause.
Didn't do all the work setting the posts. I had a helper! I'm sure he thinks his a dog.
I'll give it a break now and if you like I can post som more later!
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