This next picture shows a bit of the secret/woodland garden. It looks very pretty but in the winter it looked like a lot of dead sticks. I am going to have to plant a few more evergreen plants so i have something to look at in the winter. I need something to give it structure when not much else is going on.
this next view is of the secret garden from behind on the right. Everything had been planted just months earlier that year.

In the secret garden, sorry to go on and on but i cant decide what pics to post so i am posting loads. :)




It is lovely and peaceful sitting in there as it is so cool in the summer. I have a mirror and a wind chime so far, i have great plans, honest! :o



You can also see the beginnings of a flower bed and the new lawn is growing well.


I have planted a few hostas and ferns and various grasses. There are also a couple of spireas and a couple of different Pittasporums i think. Feck the spelling! lol. There is an abandoned Braeburn dwarf apple tree that has decide it likes it there and this year has one apple. It has my name on it, i love Braeburns.





We have been getting so much done and its great to see the garden grow.

This is the view from the flower bed near the patio on the right.


Remember earlier the picture in front of the greenhouse? Well, this is what we decided to do.



I wanted to use up the slate we had and used it to fill gaps in the paving. It seemed like a good idea at first but over the winter and this spring loads of stuff fell out of the conifers above that patio and it was impossible to sweep it away. It has since been changed. It does look really effective though lol