New Garden

Yes...you will have really pepped it up and given the garden a lot more interest Resi.
I love the mixed paving/cobbles and planting.
Ha ha....it made me laugh thinking of your house having had a makeover in 1971....... Perhaps you should've just grown your hair and donned a tank top and flairs and gone with it ......just think of all the work it would've saved!

Been there Paul and lived it, wasn't into gardening then apart from maybe the odd tall weed ?

It looks brill!

looking good already, keep up the good work! :O)

Ha ha.....it was mid/late 70's when my first early interest in gardening developed Resi....although I didn't realise at that time how much it would grow.

I really didn't like gardening when I was younger, might have something to do with me having to rake endless garden paths and cut the edges every saturday, which I hated! It's just so important to give our kids a chance to discover the joys of growing and creating beauty and finding out the pleasure of it as young as possible.

You've got the begginings of a great new garden Resi. I love what you've done so far. It was quite similar to mine when we moved here...lots of boring and overgrown things that all had to ome out. Love your situation too...lovely open views. :)

Thanks paul, Olive oil and Karen, I really need a bit of encouragement now. Everybody's garden seems to be breaking out in colour, but here it's still lots of bare earth and most of the colour still in my head! But it's encouraging to see most things taking of and putting down roots..

If only I can make the magic like you did in yours Karen, I'll be well happy. Wide open views are the only magic so far!

keep working on those head plans Resi, you will get there in the end and the feeling of oh so good when it is all done (if a garden is ever all done) is well worth the wait. Patience and little jobs done each day will get you there. :O)

Thanks oliveoil, you're so right. My strategy is to look back at what I've already achieved and not forward to all the jobs still needing doing. Saved my sanity when I made that large french garden (that's in my 'resi' account), now that was hard, so why am I moaning. I love it really

Found that the temptation to want it all...like, yesterday...is all too common when starting out in a new place. I admire your control. You started at the top of the priority list (the house) and worked your way through to the main event in very organized fashion. Can't wait to see the pond you'll make and see your blogs about all the wildlife you've attracted. Wasn't it Mary Poppins who said: "Well begun is half done!" ??? All that sod turned... and the barrow loads of compost; this garden is going to be GREAT! can't wait.

Well I really couldn't face living in a 70s style decorated house, been there..done that and never liked it! Always hated orange and big flowery patterns. So I had no choice and we got on with it. I'm pleased we did it that way round, it meant I can now spend however long I like getting my garden as I want it and potter without pressure to get on. But definitely (hopefully) the last time I do up a house, life's getting too short now!

The old "mortality" thing bites me occasionally too, M. BUT...if we can keep on going full throttle, as long as possible, who knows what we'll accomplish? Tally-ho!

That's the spirit girl ?

It's looking great already !, can't wait to see what else you do ,exciting !
Made me laugh you finding a bath I thought back to all we found in ours a bike was the best I think , being old allotment land think everything was buried , I found an old boot the other day didn't dig any deeper!! ;-)

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Views to die for! I'm very jealous and looking forward to seeing developments :)
(I have a weeks holiday in North Yorkshire (Newtondale) every year and absolutely love the place - even though I live across the border in Lancs . . . shhhh!).

I hope to do another blog soon muddy. I've just come back last night from a week's travelling round Northumberland in my little van, looking at gardens, Herterton Gardens being my alltime favourite, and old churches and doing quite a bit of walking on the moors. Oh and I visited Housesteads fort on Hadrians Wall, talking of views to die for....those romans knew where to build for their views!! Magnificent and some good archeology too.

any Roman coins? I'd love to go to Italy someday and visit the hill towns and see the Roman Roads and viaducts. I read about Schliemann when I was 10 and Caernarvon and Egypt, I'm a self-professed nut about the ancient civilisations and archeology so I'm with you there! Will have to load up Google Earth again and take a walk on the Moors...lol. Won't get there any other way!
With all this inspiration you'll be good for another month at least! :-))

Wow someone's been busy....your 'new' garden is shaping up well.

Thanks sandra, small as it is, it keeps me busy. So many plants broken off and looking most unhappy after the storms of the last few days. Your big day must be soon...?

Can't see any damage here but I have been watching a gazebo flapping in the wind today but it survived. Big event in two and a half weeks but everything is surprisingly on track and I am blown away by the amount of help being received after recent events!

And most likely well deserved sandra. As you sow, so you'll reap! Or something like that...

They are all getting their fair share of tomatoes and runner beans...lol

Sounds like a good exchange to me.

There is a lot of exchange of goods and services here in Pembrokeshire...it's amazing what you can get in exchange for a dozen eggs!

We should all get back to that, much healthier than all that money oriented living. Btw what sort of things do you exchange for a dozen eggs? I water my neighbours baskets en tubs when she's away, and get a tray of eggs, otherwise not much bartering here.

We keep our neighbour supplied with eggs as he has a tractor that comes in handy. I recently swapped tomatoes for elderflower champagne...it's lovely having nice neighbours

Elderflower champagne! Good deal there! Tractors are great as long as your garden has access and is big enough, it wouldn't buy very much on my little patch here ? in the past though our neighbour helped with laying our baby hedge with his tractor and with more than a hundred and fifty to plant that was fantastic. Yes good neighbours are very important, worth their weight in gold often. Specially in a rural community.