When I bought this house in 1993 the garden didn't exist. It was just bare croft land like the land on the other side of the fence with the addition of building rubble from when the house was built in the 1920s and extended in the '70s and again in the '80s.
Local customs made it impossible to work on the garden on the Sabbath and I worked six days a week as a rule. So transforming the bare land into what I have now took a long time working mainly on summer evenings. After 10 years of moving tons of soil and stones I had got this far with a retaining wall built and a level that could be used (it had previously been too steep to contemplate a 'lawn' area). Most of you will have seen many photos of what the garden is like now but I'm not sure that the the work is any less: just different.
There is still lots of planting and alterations to do and it still needs weeding constantly. So when friends come to stay (especially gardening friends)...
But it's worth it:
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| Lavatera |
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| Lavatera |
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| Primrose (sic) though they look like Primulas to me |
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| Primulas (sic) though they look like Primulas to me |
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| Geranium 'Rozanne': a low ground-covering geranium |
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