Since we moved here in April we have transformed the flower beds that are around three sides of the cottage, I don't have pics from before but it was a proper mess (I even managed to break a tine of the fork I inherited from my Grandad digging out one of the tree roots) but I have taken some today so you can get an idea.
This is part of the herb garden, but the Golden Beetroots are stifling the herbs a bit so we are removing the larger ones later today, leaves to go in salad tonight with the BBQ ribs and the beets with tomorrow's roast chicken. In this pic there are two types of mint, two types of Oregano, a lavender and several flowering plants you can't eat put in by Suzy to spite me. Oh! and the old rose bush I cut right back to a stump which is producing some lovely flowers now.
Further along we have the old heather we are trying to keep then some fennel and parsley and yet more of Suzy's flowers and more of our beets.
Rounding the corner we have another straggly heather some basil in the round pot more parsley, then sage and an aubergine plant more beets and those pesky flowers and a magnolia tree.
Here we have a whole glut of beets a Bay Tree and some lettuces in the plant troughs on top of the french drain. So we have been busy.
The new bit of ground is this...
The fence runs north to south, north being the telephone pole end, with a large spoil heap of earth in the middle from when they dug out our parking area and french drain.
The land has been unused for 7 years but someone attempted to clear it to fix the end fence back in spring. It is riddled with bind weed, nettles and bramble.
I made some inroads today, just over 9 sq. mtrs dug, some of the spoil heap spread over it to depth of good soil and a lot of bramble cut back to the other side of the left hand fence and some overhanging branches cut back.
Back aching work, due to the amount of roots to be cleared from every fork full but it is a start.
Ta for looking in,
Rob.