look what I've got!

Good luck in your new home ...
lots of projects there :o)

Hello Urbanite!! Well Done on getting your the keys to your new home and soon-to-be garden!!! Good idea about the raised flower beds but the pond sounds like fun. In answer to your rhetorical question about slugs - No! Nowhere is safe from the beasts...not even hanging baskets!!!

Congrats on finally getting the keys to your new home,Urbanite..now the hard but enjoyable bit starts :o)
It will be nice to be able to put your own stamp on it..and on the nasties on the Euonyomus too..it looks like the only place for them to hide,at the moment..Is that a back lane I see behind your wall ? for bungee jumping slugs and snails perhaps ? :o) ..good luck...

You are certainly not alone in your new home journey Urbanite. I wish you well in your new home.
I'd be tempted to get rid of those raised beds too - they look rather narrow for any sort of decent planting.
Awaiting pictures of your new pond and waterfall - obviously best to get the house sorted first, so no rush ;)

I wish you good luck in your new Home.

Lots of hard work ahead! You have wonderful walls for roses, clematis etc! I'd be tempted to widen one of the raised beds instead of getting rid, to have somewhere to plant them into! All the best with your move.

Thanks everyone. I spent Sunday measuring up and wondering what I'd done! But I'm beginning to look forward to getting my hands dirty - started looking at hedge trimmers to get the front privet in hand this weekend. Decided that it's more cost effective to buy a cheap trimmer than to hire one.

How exciting ! :o) It will be interesting to see what you do with it ...

good luck in your new home.

will watch with interest. hope you are happy in your new home. [and the builder doesn't take 6 month]:o))

Congratulations on your new home. I thought yesterday, two members moving this month, I wonder who the third one will be. Like Steragram i would reconsider removing your raised borders. You have a lot of good quality red brick wall which could take lots of climbers etc. If there is a path behind it I would plant things like roses and pyracantha as a security barrier. You do not need a lot of space front to back of such a border as the extra depth will compensate for lack of surface area. Reminds me of a programme we used to watch " never mind the quality feel the width" lol. Forgive my merriment I'm having a senior moment. There will still be room to plant things like bulbs and low growing perennials. Ferns maybe. Whatever you decide we will all be waiting to see the result. I would get rid of the ivy. If there is the slightest weakness in the pointing the ivy will find it and grow in to it. You would do better with a climbing hydrangea. Good luck and best wishes.

A walled garden to play with! What fun to come when the house is sorted.
Reminds me of my grannys house on "the Pool" is it city or county?
she of course had the old sash windows and I remember the blacklead range in the livin room, it made great toast.....if a little black round the edges if I was allowed the toasting fork.......
All good wishes for your new home.

Lots of comings and goings for you in the next few months, I hope you will be happy in your new home and wish you well with all the alterations both inside and out, it will be interesting to watch you transform your garden...

A wonderful new challenge, Have loads of fun, I would.

I did a reply and it's disappeared into the ether!

It's a little urban yard completely surrounded by neighbours (although i'm an end terrace). This is very much like my granny's as well Pam. And I remember being "allowed" to "Cardinal Red" the front doorstep, as a treat! Amazing what we thought of as being a treat! The house has a few surviving edwardian features - some sash windows and nice fireplaces and a lovely quarry tiled floor in the kitchen which I'll be carefully taking up to have a concrete floor put in and then refitting the original tiles. Hoping to get some reclaimed Staffordshire Blue pavers for the yard in place of those concrete slabs. it would be a dream if I took up the slabs and found the Blues but I don't think that's going to happen :o(

You can but dream for now Urbanite :)

You have lots of work ahead and its great news that the quarry tiles are in good condition. I remember being allowed to clean the silver cutlery as a "treat". Our drive was covered in red and blue shale when we arrived. It took 16 big skip loads to remove it. Under it we discovered an almost intact original which was just round boulders set in sand. It was impossible for my older daughter to walk on as she has arthritis so we skimmed it with concrete. We hope the next owners may want to restore it but we are now the arthriticy ones and will leave well alone. Our kitchen floor was concrete and we had that skimmed with a 1" layer of mastic asphalt. The salesman omitted to tell us that it could be hardened to leave a usable floor. It was amazing it see it being laid. 6 men arrived and proceeded to ferry bucket loads of the thick hot tarry goo which was spead on the floor by the floor layer as I would ice a cake. I do hope it all goes smoothly for you.