The garden

So as promised, back to the house. Over the past week we have had Martin and his team in from MJ FIeld Gardening Services. They have been working to turn the overgrown builder’s yard at the back of the house back into a garden. It had essentially been neglected for a year and then maltreated even further as a store for all sorts of materials. So it wasn’t looking its best:

: View from the lounge before the carnage

: Its lovely – but we are missing the view of the whole garden

: The boundary hedge was so overgrown

: Viewed from above you can see how far it had grown into our garden

: It pretty much blocked access up the side of the house

: And the view through the arch

: Some lovely plants but just swamped

: Yeah – I think overgrown just about covers it…

And as has often been the way – before you can start to fix things, you have to make them worse. So Martin and his team launched into action to clear the overgrowth and try and make sense of what was left. Still a bit of a shock when we first saw it:

: A major prune of the hedge.

: It looks a little sorry for itself now, but give it a month or two

: No more archway

: Old overgrown shrubs cleared out

And then over the last couple of days, the decking outside the lounge has started to take shape. It looks massive at the moment, but once it is done and has some furniture and some pots it will look amazing. They are back on Monday to start to fixing the actual decking planks.