The new garden

Some more photos

End of day 2

It rained and poured all morning. About 1.30 the gardeners had to go home as they were unable to do anything because of the weather. The lawn was turning into a mud bath. About thirty minutes after they left the sun came out - and its quite nice now.

The soggy patch in the lawn is still a problem even though a lot of water is running into flower beds. The gardener is going to put in some gravel on Monday to help with the drainage.

And I so need to remove that big bit of concrete by the lavender. It really sticks out now!

day 2

We were really lucky with the weather yesterday. Not so today; its been really drizzly. Its REALLY muddy. The lawn is taking a battering.

I can't stop looking out of the window at the garden as it takes shape though. The new camera arrived first thing and the battery is just charging. How impressive is that from Amazon though - less than 24 hours from ordering to delivery. Slightly better than the xmas parcel that took over two months! Hope I'm not making them nervous out there - every time I look out they look up!

The gardener has moved some of the bushes around and found a pear tree. Its started sprouting some leaves so cant be moved until next winter. It was hiding between two bushes down on the right. He thinks it might have been there for 8 or 9 years. It is only very little though - about 60cm tall - so its not grown because it was being hidden.

Photos to follow..

end of day 1

Its taking shape

My work computer is a bit quicker and I can't resist temptation to tell you how it is going - well.

The soggy patch in lawn has drained into new flower beds which have now been shaped. The big plant that hung over the path is going to go at back where the xmas tree hole is. Two pretty little bushes that are hidden under a bush can be brought forward. The ash trees that are sprouting every where will be removed.

The gardeners showed interest in my old pictures of the garden and told me what was weed and what wasn't. The cute little seedlings were actualy new ash trees so they are getting pulled out. Two unidentified flowers are forget-me-knots.

And a new 8 mega pixle camera is ordered and arriving tomorrow.
Happy days.

Very Over Excited

The concrete is now in a skip in front of the house - yeah!

The slates have arrived and they are lovely

The shape of the flower beds has been marked out and started to be dug

A big tree has been removed which has given us more space at light at the end of the garden

I'm working by the window that looks out over the garden and I'm finding it VERY HARD to do any work

And I can't get the camera to work - I should have just ordered that new fancy one last weekend

James the gardener

Is coming tomorrow. How exciting. Camera still on holiday so can't take any before and after shots. Boo. Hopefully it will work long enough to take some pics over next few days.
Dreaming of my lovely slate stepping stones and big flower beds.....

Easter weekend

It snowed all weekend and i didn't make it into the garden except to feed the birds.

No pics as my camera (which is on its last legs) is skiing at moment. Hopefully I'll get a nice shiny new camera soon. If Mr L approves it. I was trying out my dads at the weekend - it will take some lovely flower pics..

kew

A lovely day in Kew. We went to see the spring bulbs. I really liked the magnolia trees as well. The sculptures are Henry Moore.

16th March

Yesterday I planted some fuchsias that arrived as plugs into little pots. They are three different hardy species - four of each plant.

There is quite a lot in the plant house now - but its only 1 degree warmer than being outside. I put the fuchsias in here.

I also sowed some salad and chives. These are on the window sill in teh spare room. The sweet peas I sowed last year which are in pots in the spare room are practically dead but the ones I sowed earlier this year are doing well.

Its been raining all weekend. The flood patch in the lawn has come back.

I've included a couple of pictures from the back door which show where we pulled up the crazy paving. Not entirely sure what we'll do here...