November garden: Cut flower terraces
The terraces are a practical solution to a recurring problem here: how to get the garden down the hill. We live …
Tag Archives: hard landscaping
October garden: Greenhouses and fruit garden
The slow dying of the greenhouses is the swansong of my year. They’re the last to go: long after the …
Moving matters #3: Home improvements
You know that thing you do when you’re selling a house when you rush round getting all the jobs done …
The path to enlightenment #2
Back to the grindstone: you may remember I had a two-inch layer of MOT on the path which once I’d …
The path to enlightenment #1
We’ve gone a bit potty with the hard landscaping lately. First it was the gravel, which smartened things up around …
Inspiration from West Dean #2
One for the hard-landscaping wishlist here…. There’s a little loggia that formed the full stop to a very long pergola …
How we spent our weekend #2
A little update on progress with the fishpond… This is the Bloke’s department – far too much precision involved for …
How we spent our weekend #1
Have small children clamouring for goldfish and pathological hatred of cleaning out fishtanks… will dig big hole. Having drawn some …
Garden makeover: Shedding about #2
Guess what I spent my weekend doing… After my little bit of inspiration over the twin evils of a shed …
How to make a coldframe #4
Time to get back to my coldframe construction – it’s been put on the back burner a little since all …
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