Projects

(Please note: a bit lower down this page is the current Plot Plan, there is also a plan of the bottom half of the garden showing how it has evolved, with both old and our future plans, on Page 2)

For some background please see the About page

If you haven’t already seen it you might like to see what Our Old House looked like

Plot Plan

This is a list of our Projects:

Veg = Vegetable garden
GH = Greenhouses
R = Rose bed (by the terrace where we Bar-B-Q in the Summer). Planted in Autumn 2007

In Summer 2007 we decided that we didn’t like the arrangement of the Ponds and revamped and reshaped them

Our initial planting was intended to just be two areas either side of an old tennis court comprising the Shrubbery – a border we made from an area of rough grass and initially planted in Spring 2008. The second border, on the other side of the Tennis Court was to be a mixed Herbaceous border and it was initially planted in 2009 and more plants added in 2010. In 2011/2012 we started changing this to a Hot / Red border, and moved the plants which were the wrong colour! into other borders which we are creating in the Garden Extension.

In 2008 we bought a few Chickens and they entertain us with their characteristic waddle as they run around the garden!

In Autumn 2008 we replaced the Leylandii Front Hedge with a Copper Beech hedge and Yew Topiary and also in Winter 2008 some nearby Poplars were replaced with a line of Pleached Limes to make a screen between the front of the house and the main garden. I know nothing about training a Pleached Hedge!

In 2009 we built Barn to give us somewhere to store everything, and in 2010 we erected a Pergola for some Climbing roses – to act as a screen between garden and pool.

As part of the Barn Project we ripped up the old tennis court and reused the hardcore, and that created an area for a Topiary Lawn which we refer to as the Centre Court and a path at right-angles we call The Cross Walk which is lined with Lavenders.

There is an area of rough grass at the end of our plot which narrows to a point, and which we call “The Spit” in which we originally planned to create an informal Woodland – area. In 2010 we changed our minds and decided to create a more formal arrangement and started the Garden Extension Project. This saw hedges planted in Winter 2010/2011 for the Long Walk and also hedges around some planned “Rooms” and the Fruit and planned Nut Walk; in Autumn 2011 we extended the Long Walk with the Holm Oak Walk. In Autumn 2011 we also bought some Oxford Tamworth piglets to “dig” the Hydrangea Walk which we plan to plant in Autumn 2012.

In Autumn 2011 we decided to build a Jungle Garden (based on some Exotic Gardens we had visited) in order to have a garden near the house that would mature quickly whilst we make the long-wait for the other projects to mature.

In Spring 2012 on impulse I bought a few thousand Snowdrops to create a Winter
Woodland Walk, other winter flowering plants will follow.

The slightly longer term projects:

Pergola-2 – this was intended to be across the back of the Herbaceous, Sunken and Shrubbery, and divide them from the Woodland, but with the redesign in 2010 that has become known as Cross Court, and currently planned to be an area of grass, and we are thinking of making the planned “Room 1″ into a pergola walk – the Laburnum arch-walk at Bodnant is a long held wish of mine to both visit and to emulate.

Sunken Garden – Topiary, Knot garden, and ultimately a Folly at the end. The 2010 redesign changed this so that it is no longer planned to be sunken (due to worries about drainage), and is now referred to as Centre Court as it is the site of an old tennis court. We still plan topiary, and maybe a Knot garden.

Amongst the future Dreams I would like to have:

Japanese Garden – there is an area across, and to one side of, the ponds which would lend itself.

There is also a plan of the garden showing how it has evolved, and both our original plan and our future plans, on the Next Page

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