Two years ago our wellie wearing family moved to the rolling wet hills of Mid Wales. We decided to grow our own fruit and veg, keep bees, poultry and build our own furniture with little or no experience.



This is our journey to the good life.







Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Garden plans...

So here is the plan...




This is a basic representation of how our back garden will look unless we get bored, run out of money or change our minds !

Stuff we've already done:
- A series of posts with a rope between them for roses and ivy to grow up and over to create arches (top left in orange), in place but waiting for plants to get their finger out.
- Rockery, finished.
- Summerhouse, wicker Ebay find all up and running.
- Bees, hives built, garden sectioned off with rustic fencing, we'll be adding a low hedge to soon.
- Sink, see todays other post!
- Fire Pit, the first thing we did after moving in. Been cooking it up good style for a while now.
- All the 'T' marks are new fruit trees that we have put in this year.

Stuff still to do:
- Massive amounts of weeding, this will take forever..!
- Pond, this picture shows the new shape we hope to have next year. Currently it is just a rough oval but we want to 'Y' shape it at one end to shape it around the black spot.
- The black spot, this will be a garden bed made from an old trampoline (Ebay find for £10!) and a structure that will probably be a living willow gazebo thing (to be done in the autumn)
- Old shrub bed by the arch will be ripped out and returned to lawn but also our apricot tree will go here.
- Low walls on the terrace will be built, mainly out of stone reclaimed from elsewhere in the garden to create a better border between the terrace and the rockery/lawn.
- Gravel ! The driveway, terrace and front of the house desperately needs re-gravelling. We've found a local supplier who can deliver around 14 tons for a couple of hundred quid but right now we can't guarantee the motivation to move it about and a pile that big on our driveway will stop us getting in! 
- The circle with the '?' is a dark clearing under the trees high up overlooking the garden. Not sure what will be going here...

and that's it!

P.S. If anyone fancies helping us move a lorry load of gravel let us know!

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