So, what is the new garden like? Come we'll walk round.
Leaving the house by the backdoor, here there's a small paved area with a few pots. Daffodils for spring and an embryo fernery. Turn left and at the end of the house immediately on your left is a raised bed with Lavender and Saint Helena. Further along the same wall is the garden tap under the kitchen window and the first hose reel. In the corner between the kitchen and a boundary wall is a tank which collects water from the roof of the house.
Now if you turn your back on the kitchen window you will see a large raised bed in the shape of a squared off C. This bed is planted up with perennial flowering shrubs. 5 If you follow the path to the right of this bed you will come to the pergola, which stretches right across the garden.
There is a wooden bench here backing on to the right-hand boundary hedge. Opposite is the raised pond.
At right angle to the bench and backed up to the shed is another bed with Pinks, Tradescantia, Jasmine and a Zephyrene Druin Rose. The rose and Jasmine are climbing up some of the pergolas posts and will in time cover the top giving welcome shade on hot summer days.
There is a short slope up to the shed the right hand edge of which is guarded by three short posts each slightly taller than it's fellows a useful temporary spot to put keys, or the odd pot or pair of secateurs.
To the right of the shed is a small strawberry pot, but I found that Thyme and some small Sedums flourish here better than the strawberries did.
Just past the pond on the left are two compost bins. Now we follow a path further up the garden. On our left is a long bed. Then a gap where the second hose reels stands.
To the right of this bed is a g shaped bed where a variety of herbs grow. Opposite the reel stand is a short path running between the front of the greenhouse and the herbs.
Inside the greenhouse there is a raised bed on the left a folding bench on the right and above this a narrow pebble shelf.
Just inside the door on the right is a small tidy with several useful storage shelves. A small heated propergator stand on the top shelf. Two waterproof electric sockets are fixed on the wall next to the tidy. In the winter a small electric heater keeps out the frost.
Continuing up passed the hose reel there is an F shaped bed where the bulk of my veg grow. A low wooden fence protects the greenhouse glass from bumps from my walker or the wheelbarrow.
The end of the garden is filled by the fruit cage. Inside there is a central square bed planted up with strawberries and a Crab apple tree. To the right of the gate backing on to the greenhouse is a ground level bed planted with two apple cordons. On the right hand side of the fruit cage is a raised bed with Raspberry canes. In the left hand bed Blackcurrant bushes grow and some Alpine Strawberries. At the far end of this bed is a cold frame and the last hose reel.
Along the south facing boundary wall is a low raised bed with a Fig in the right hand section and A small clump of Rhubarb towards the center. The left hand portion of this bed is waiting for a dessert grape.
Well, now you've been all round the garden.