Welcome to the first post of my new blog. Below you can see some of the photos taken whilst we took the first tentative steps on the road to creating our garden paradise. Check back to see how we are doing.



The first stage was to remove the turf from the areas that we wanted to become the new borders. This is tough work and necessitated the purchase of a spade and a wheelbarrow!








We had to spread the work out over two weekends, partly because of other commitments and partly because I was too unfit for the task!









Once all the turf was lifted you can see the shape of the new lawn and of the new borders much more clearly. The next stage was to remove the wooden edging (yuck!) that had gone round the existing borders. I then took out some of the annuals that had flowered during the summer.



In the bottom left corner (in the pictures) there was a small border consisting of blackthorn, rose, mint and lily of the valley. The all needed to be taken out and proved to be extremely troublesome.