Mum would be so excited and impressed! John and I are planning my garden.
I have to admit that I thought John was going a bit far when he went out and measured and then created a scale drawing in photoshop! But now I’m pleased he did as it’s made planning much easier.
So the above photo is what it currently looks like – boring really.
The back door opens onto a nice patio with a raised water feature and steps upto a lawn. Badly spaced slabs make the path up to a sort of terrace where the two silver birch (ignore what it says on the pic) trees are. Then at the top is a badly paved area which until recently had a load of wood dumped on it, and of course my shed.
Below is how we are currently planning it to be.
The patio, water feature and steps can’t be changed. But John is building a barbecue in the corner to the left. Next to the steps gets little light and is quite wet – perfect for ferns. Then the path (we’ve yet to decide what it will be made of), to the left of which will be a bed with lots of different grasses and a few flowers.
The next line, where the trees are will be screened off with hurdles which I hope to grow dwarf fruit trees on. Behind this will be a kind of Zen Japanese garden – pebbles, Buddha statue and a seat.
John wants to try growing things so we will have a small veg patch and some herbs next, then above this there will be room for the compost bin, a water butt (to collect water from the shed roof), and maybe in time a decked area – this part of the garden gets sun for the longest.
