Kay, do you have any pics on the development of yor garden? I saw it
so many years ago, I'm sure it has changed now?

No pics, sorry. It's basically just grown up a lot. The 'woodland' at
the end is now a very private place for a hammock in the summer. The
apple trees over the pergola are now doing what they were meant to and
forming a complete tunnel - a mass of flowers in the spring, and
dripping with all the different colours and shapes of the fruit in
autumn. The medlar and mulberry are giving good crops each year, and we
have a roofed terrace area by the pond at the back. You'd recognise it
all, but there's a lot more plants in, and it's a lovely shady garden
with lots going on all the year round.

I say shady, but we've just had new neighbours who took the whole of the
next door garden and put in through a shredder. So no apple trees
festooned with clematis, rose or honeysuckle, no large viburnums, no
purple elder. And about 20 houses visible where once we had just
greenery. So I'm growing the hedge an extra couple of feet higher, and
waiting to see just how much extra sun we have, and what this means for
my plants - which ones will start drying out in the summer, and which
will appreciate the extra light.


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Kay