You can see a big hole being dug at the bottom of the garden which is where the celtic wall and firepit will be installed. Its hard to visualise at the moment, but our designer is confident that it will all make sense.
Nicholas
With the slight delays of scheduling and rough weather, we are about 3 weeks behind on the work in the garden, which meant our choices on some plants were not available. So...to our local garden centre we went...
These are a small portion of what will be planted, but it is so much fun to actually have them awaiting planting...a forsythia, given as a housewarming gift to us by good friends, will be planted, with others, and honeysuckle at the lower border, 3 Sarah Bernhardt peonies (but of course), will be planted alongside a bed of bearded irises, just beyond the Japanese maple...
4 yellow climbing roses and 4 clematis, shades of purple and white, will be on the opposite fence...
Everything feels quite chaotic again with all the large equipment and the mud of last week's intense rain and storms, newly hardened by scorching heat...but, as our landscape designer was digging down through the top layers of rock and building rubble yesterday, he lifted beautiful, moist, loamy, earth by the bucketful, healthy earth that will form the beds for our plants and provide nutrition and the sustenance for the trees yet to come. And I was reminded that, more often than not, if I look beneath the hardened places in me, if I dig deeply and gently, beneath the remnants of storms and dryness, sadness and pain...beneath those surface scars...I will find the possibility for new life...
Judy
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