27 October 2018 is where it all started. We moved into our home and the very overgrown garden, so overgrown there was no telling where the garden ended. It was an undertaking of unknown proportions. Once we’d started taking the garden back, it became only too clear that we were maybe getting too old for this malarkey.
Elder trees, nettles and brambles were the biggest pain in the bum, then once we began to open the garden up, glass from broken greenhouses, and concrete and wire from chicken coops were there underneath.
One year in…
Two years of hardwork!
The first year or so was hard. Into the second year, we had lockdown, and that was a chance to get cracking on with it, and we certainly did that.
I started writing my blog, Lucie in the Willows in June 2021, charting everything we had done up until that point, the garden we had built, the flowers we had grown and the jobs still to do. Sadly, work got in the way, my domain lapsed, and we haven’t done much for the past couple of years, other than add a fish pond.
My favourite part was fencing off the end of the garden to make a corner with raised beds and a greenhouse. I can tell you, as of this day, it does not look as pristine as it does in the photo below. That is one of my major jobs for this Spring.
Oh, also, I have always wanted a magnolia tree and there it was, hiding in plain sight. A beautiful specimen she is, however, it’s a game of chance as to whether her blooms manage to avoid the March frosts or not.
There’s so much more to do and, I love to take photos, ( I have thousands!), and plenty more to come for me to share with you.
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