Across the 'old' back garden

Love the way you have flowers cascading over your rock walls. It softens the sharp edges, and add character to the wall, and gives it a aged look. Always wished I had a rock wall to work with. You've done and excellent job with yours.!

We are very lucky to have quite a lot of blue lias walls - the cottage is built from blue lias - dates back to 1530, and I'm always digging up lumps of it, possibly from old walls no longer here.

This is a blast from the past!!

It sure is, Dd, and it all looks very different now. That yew tree has gone, and my pretty little Cupressus is there instead. The horrible hedge with brambles running riot isn't there, either, and nor are the Leycesterias. I really didn't like them.

I love looking at the old photographs of the garden amazing how you soon forget what it looked like....

You're so right. My very first photo on here shows that!

I am horrified when I look at pictures of the garden when we first opened for the NGS, it was horrid in places!!

Mine, too. You're not alone...

Oh thank goodness for that:-!

There are always areas to re-do, aren't there. Is a garden ever finished? No, never.