The progress of my garden...

11 December, 2000. Path down but needs seating properly, there's a few plants to be seen, and even some grass growing in the foreground!

 

28 December, 2000. White Christmas (almost)!

 

15 January, 2001. Path down properly.

 

19 February, 2001. Stone circle (paved area) laid.

 

12 April, 2001. You may not see much difference, but I've dug the whole thing over, excavated tons of bricks, concrete, rubble, glass, corrugated iron, advertising signs; I've seeded grass all over and some is beginning to show, and I've put in some potatoes and strawberries and climbers and ferns. Spring is happening to the trees and fruit bushes which is great! With any luck, there'll be a lot more to update soon!

 

21 April, 2001. All the rubble has gone! More things growing, too!

 

29 April, 2001. Definitely spring now, blossom on trees, more grass... even some potato action, though of course you can't see it in this view...

 

5 May, 2001. Well, that tree that wasn't doing anything was stone dead, so it had to go... and the neighbours at back had the tree surgeons in too, so there's a lot more sky.

 

21 May,2001. Now this is beginning to resemble a garden! Even though I've dug up even more rubbish at the back. Oh, and that stumpy thing on the right had to go too. Even mowed the lawn at the weekend!

 

20 June, 2001. Things continue to grow... the runner beans at the back, the corn, the courgettes have all come on leaps and bounds - in fact they weren't even there in the last picture! And the potatoes, sown in April, are waist-high. Lots more perennials too, and the ones I already had are coming on strong. And the lawn is looking convincingly like a proper lawn!

 

17 July, 2001. More vegetable growth and a better lawn. Courgettes, beans and peas now all yielding regularly, as are the soft fruits. We're getting there.

 

21 August, 2001. Don't know if you can see much change but it is a bit more colourful, and fine for barbecues...

 

9 November, 2001. Definitely turning into autumn! Almost all the vegetables have been harvested. Grass needs cutting but it's always too wet!

 

15 December, 2001. I think we can call this winter.

 

21 March 2002. Spring! The sun is shining! The grass needs cutting! However, I have tidied up the beds, and planted some more fruit bushes and perennials. But you just can't see them.

 

7 April 2002. A lot of work done this week, with the grass looking a lot better, lots of vegetable seeds and the seed potatoes in, and a few more flowers in the borders. It'll be a riot of colour before long!

 

14 July 2002. Oops! Forgot to update the site for ages, and loads has been happening. You've missed the foxgloves, I'm afraid, but lot of other colourful stuff is happening. And the vegetables are being very productive - pea, beans, onions, potatoes, lettuces, all yielding loads of produce. And I've made blackcurrant jelly and gooseberry puddings too, and had fresh strawberries with my breakfast most mornings...

23 October 2002. You can tell it's not summer any more! Other big changes: the rather ugly elder tree in the far left corner has finally gone, and the path has been extended into the kitchen garden.

 

31 May 2003. A while since the last photo! The borders are much tidier and about to burst into colour; tons of green at the far end means another bumber crop of veg.

9 March 2004. A spring day! As you can see I've been expanding the beds; last year was so arid that much of the lawn suffered and the flowers struggled. Here's to this year... more updates, I promise!

8 June 2004. Despite spending much of the summer abroad, the garden stayed in reasonable shape and had masses of colour, and a huge harvest of soft fruit.

20 February 2005. I'm not going out in that! You might be able to discern the raised vegetable beds at the far end, an innovation for 2005.

20 December 2006. Frosty! Next year I'll remember to update in the summer! However, you can see an extended bed on the left with a greengage tree. The Victoria plum, which has been yielding enormous amounts (20kg this year!) should act as a pollinator. There's also a new apricot tree in the right-hand bed but it's hard to see. Everything else has just grown!