Lucy and I were out in the garden today, planting, watering and pruning. I pulled out yet another shrub (a Hebe which had been got by the rabbits over the years), and fear there are more to be removed. The previous owners lived here since the house was new 9 years ago, but had never done anything in the garden whatsoever according to neighbours. So now all that is left are some drab, overgrown and dying shrubs which were badly planted by the builders all that time ago, and are now on their last legs or alive but looking decidedly wonky and overgrown.
I have some planting plans already in my head and thanks to an exhausted Lucy who is already in bed, I can go and sit down this evening and draw them out. We have quite a bit if shade and some of the garden sees barely any sun at all. But the other two thirds does to varying degrees. So it's a nice challenge to find plants that suit every corner and will give us interest throughout the year. The nice thing about our climate here, compared to Pennsylvania, is that the winters are milder so I can find allsorts of interesting flowering shrubs and climbers which will flower in winter and give the garden a bit of colour then as well as through the summer.
Front garden - very plain and in need of some TLC!
Our village shop sells some plants from a nearby nursery and they are really pretty nice and well priced, so I am tempted every time I go to buy a stamp! And we have 3 garden centres within 2 miles of the house, so that makes journeys to Oundle and to school a little distracting too!
Joe is back from a week away in the States today. I am hoping he won't mind me spending a tonne of time on the garden this weekend as I feel a little behind this week. Thanks to Lucy skipping naps (I think they are about done with, SADLY) and me feeling utterly exhausted with a sore throat and a grumpy and tired Lucy. Hey ho! She'll spark up when her fave man comes home :)
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