A Bit of a Garden Update

As Spring has now finally sprung in all it's glory, I decided to take a few photos of our garden as it currently stands at present:

It feels like it has been a long winter, but the garden has really come back to life in recent weeks, with lots of greenery everywhere and a few flowers here and there too.

At the moment, it's a bit of a building site, on account of the materials having been delivered to do some hard landscaping, which is the last major job we need to do to get it how we want it. In addition, there is lots of leftover wood from when we renewed the decking, which OH was going to use to deck the side return, but we are no longer doing this. Instead, we have acquired some lovely flagstones from our neighbours, as they are building into their side return where these were laid and they no longer need them. We are now going to pave our side return using these, once the builders have finally built next door's side return wall.

With both the side return area and the main part of the garden both being a bit out of bounds, most of the plant action is centred around the decking. It is filled to the brim with waterbutts, plants in pots and seedlings being grown for the allotment. Much of this is only temporary, as the plants we are growing for the allotment and which currently have taken over the bench and tables, will eventually get planted out and some of the pots I'm intending to transfer into the beds or the allotment too, allowing us to use this space more for relaxation, but this will be a few weeks away yet. In the meantime, it remains a nice little green haven outside the back door.

This weekend, OH decided to sort and clear up the unwanted wood pile and to start laying the new patio, so by the end of Saturday the main part of the garden looked like this:

He took the black plastic off, levelled everything out a bit and then laid a few brick patterns, so we could decide which one we wanted to proceed with. We haven't got quite enough bricks, so we're hoping we'll be able to order 100 or so more to be able to complete the project. It was very exciting to see progress being made though. I can't wait until it is finished and we can properly enjoy the space. I'll keep you posted.