When we first moved here just thinking about the amount of work that needed doing to the walled garden was overwhelming.  See – The Walled Garden (Easter Weekend – Mar 30, 2013).     The old vegetable patches hadn’t been tended for years, the green house was filthy and many of the glass planes broken, the orchard looked like it had never been pruned and that winter, before we arrived, the north wall had been seriously damaged in a storm.

Below – the back of the north wall. The repairs were meant to have been carried out by the previous owners…

 Nearly all the garden was rough grass

April – and Ed gets started on one of the 2 overgrown vegetable patches…

The unloved orchard surrounded by mole hills

Despite the daunting task ahead, we were smitten – and one step at a time, our secret garden is starting to bloom.   Ed has worked a year of magic on it and walking up the winding path to the garden door is now more exciting than ever as there’s such a treat in store…

We now have 4 impressive plots of burgeoning green; fruit as well as vegetable patches.   This is our main veggie patch

The green house has had a total make-over and is currently the happy home to 5 tomato vines

At long last the north wall has been properly fixed with stone and lime mortar; a massive job that the previous owners eventually paid for…

The moles hills have also gone, the apple trees have been fed and pruned, and the meadow patches are underway – and there’s so much more to come; hedges and paths, flower borders and a DIY summer house, restored railings and replacing a section of ancient tumble-down wall with old barn doors as gates (the search is on…).   It’s a vision of loveliness.   We are one year in and it’s already taking shape.