Having worked in the garden most of the day, I now find myself waiting for Jenny to come back from a gig at Moulford Prep School. Time to add to the blog!When we first moved to Didcot, just over 2 years ago, the garden consisted of a lawn (mainly weeds and ant nests), and a veg patch at the back. Our son was soon born and consequently we did not spend much time on the garden. We tried to grow grass over the vegetable patch, but this was a pretty bad plan - we didn't raise the level of the patch, and ended up with a rather bumpy bit of grass. We also had potatoes popping up in the middle - something that we are still (believe it or not) trying to deal with.
Last year we made huge inroads in the garden with the creation of two square flower beds at the front of the garden by the patio.
Left Side: A rose not-quite-in-the-middle!! A skimmia; Sedum 'Herbstfreude'.
Right Side: We put an apple tree in the middle, a few shrubs - Senecio Maritima, Escallonia 'Golden Brian', a grass (I forget what) , Liatris Spicata (Purple), and an allium. (The tulips and the Euonymus where already there).
Here is a (lhs) picture of the back of the garden - the shed, attempt of covering up the vegetable patch, back bit of grass, and (on the right) you can just see the concrete path which ran through the garden. You can see the small shed in the middle picture, with a second apple tree which we planted. The main bed, which runs down the right-hand side of the garden is shown on the right. Not much room for expansion with the concrete path limiting the bed to 2ft wide!!
Jenny just phoned to say that her concert is over and that she is on her way home. So I'll sign off and next post can contain some prettier pictures!!
