In the meantime ... The Front Garden

The front garden needed some seeing to, so I went out there late one afternoon and hacked it to pieces! We dug out some out of control plants, clipped the bushes and hacked back the buddleia with the intention of digging that out too. Then I read that buddleia likes being hacked back hard, so decided to keep it and indeed, it is now looking quite nice and bushy.



Paul then dug both front patches over after we had killed off all the grass and weeds. We then covered it with landscaping fabric and poured over the 15 bags of cotswold chippings I had calculated we would need to cover it. Hmm - bit of a mis calculation there, we ended up needing another 30 bags to get it all covered.



I wanted to go with a Windmill theme without being naff and had managed to pick up some repro staddle stones at a local auction. I had also been hunting around for some millstones but they were stupid expensive for the real thing so was quite happy when I managed to get a repro one a lot cheaper. I am now in the process of paining the railings - what a brain numbing job that is but it will be worth it as what I have covered so far is looking great.