Recently we decided that we had let our garden drift to a point where we wanted to make changes. This subsequently developed into reintroducing greenhouse gardening into our hobby. Then we cleared quite a bit of the garden to address a few issues, including:
- Overgrown borders and some plants that were out of control and getting worse
- Some bushes that had lost any shape and housed a few mysteries of a probably unpleasant variety
- A lawn with a few weeds but also a very uneven surface in some places due primarily to a disused drain running beneath part of it.
We are not new to this and above all, we knew that we could do more with it and enjoy the whole process. I should add that after we had started, we were further enthused by a holiday in Cornwall, rightly referred to by some as the “garden of England”.
So our initial ideas revolved around:
- building a greenhouse to allow us to grow a wider range of plants and potentially, but not definitely, some fruit and vegetables
- sorting out various plants and the lawn
- sorting out the rear of the garden a bit more seriously than our casual and short-lived attempt a few years previously
……. while incorporating a few things that we wanted to do.