Spring has sprung!!

I have been a self confessed garden geek ever since my early twenties when I began keeping a (portable) collection of plants outside my back door, which moved from house to house with me during my student days. When I eventually saved enough to buy a house, the pots joined a long but thin garden, which occupies my thoughts and dreams pretty much continuously as I plan what can go where, and what will I grow this year? It is my solace when I am troubled, and my rest when I come home from a tough day in work.

When I moved in eight years ago, the garden was neglected and overgrown. I have since experimented with various areas, laid decking and paving, made raised beds and even found a home for some ex battery chickens. It is, however, never finished, and I am always coming up with different ideas to make it "better"

Since January, I have been itching to get outside and get going, and "make it better" which this year involves laying a proper path (not just stepping stones nestling in a quagmire of mud), a new lawn to replace the one that the chickens have decimated in the last few years, and moving the chicken shed to nearer the back of the garden to give them a bigger run rather than letting them free range (and trash the neighbouring gardens like last year!)

Here are a few photos of the devastation that has occurred so far. Humble beginnings but hopefully the start of something beautiful...