This is how our garden looked prior to us moving in. Five or six huge conifers encroaching on the garden and making it look a lot smaller than it actually is.
This is how our garden looks now. I pruned the holly near the barbeque (bottom right) and the holly in the corner (top right) about mid-December. There is a spiky plant in the middle at the back which was also cut back to within an inch of it's life.
So the spiky plant has budded these green things.
Which ripened to become blue.
The holly in the corner has budded and is now flowering.
The holly by the barbeque is shooting new life.
We built a raised flower bed from old floor-boards that were left in the loft. The Fuscia is flowering nicely.
The flower-bed by the barbeque is now cleared out with new plants put in.
The Lilly planted right in Dora's flight path is not looking like it will survive.
With the conifers taken out, we have planted two honeysuckles to climb the trellis and a small apple tree and a small cherry tree.
Where we have removed all the rubble from the back of the garden, we have removed the hiding places for the frogs so we have built what we call "The Frog Garden" for them to hide in.
The Hollies that are now sprouting new life
The remnants of the old connifers now being turned into firewood for the fire-pit.
Chillis in The Frog Garden starting to flower.
Jo planted a Salvia in The Frog Garden
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