A little inspiration! For those gardeners faced with the task of converting
weed infested abandoned allotments or gardens into productive land or flower
beds, take heart that it can be done! Before and After photos of our garden
at:

http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

Half of the 1 acre garden had been completely untended for around 15 years.
It was lost to an impenetrable tangled jungle of 6 feet high brambles,
nettles, bindweed, self set trees, rubbish and hundreds of discarded wine
bottles. It was completely impenetrable - even with a machete!

It has taken a year, a JCB, a chainsaw, a petrol strimmer, a pick, spade,
fork, secateurs and lots of weedkilling, lots of rotovating, blood, sweat
and tears, numerous insect bites, numerous cups of tea and lots of
back-breaking work collecting rocks dug up in the process.

If we can do it, anyone can, it just takes a clear vision of the desired end
result - and a really bad memory (to forget the hard graft done yesterday so
you can go out and do it again today!)

David & Lillian (in Normandy)... ready for a well earned rest!
Next, we've got the house and derelict barn to renovate.

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:59 +0100, David \(in Normandy\) wrote
(in article ):

A little inspiration! For those gardeners faced with the task of converting
weed infested abandoned allotments or gardens into productive land or flower
beds, take heart that it can be done! Before and After photos of our garden
at:

http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

Quite fascinating David. Thanks for the link.





--
Sally in Shropshire, UK
bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk

"Sally Thompson" wrote
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:59 +0100, David \(in Normandy\) wrote
(in article ):

A little inspiration! For those gardeners faced with the task of
converting weed infested abandoned allotments or gardens into
productive land or flower beds, take heart that it can be done!
Before and After photos of our garden at:

http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

Quite fascinating David. Thanks for the link.

You've certainly put in a lot of very hard work. It's all looking great.
The house and garden as well the blog!

--
Sue

On 1/10/06 21:58, in article
ws.net, "Sue"
wrote:


"Sally Thompson" wrote
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:59 +0100, David \(in Normandy\) wrote
(in article ):

A little inspiration! For those gardeners faced with the task of
converting weed infested abandoned allotments or gardens into
productive land or flower beds, take heart that it can be done!
Before and After photos of our garden at:

http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

Quite fascinating David. Thanks for the link.

You've certainly put in a lot of very hard work. It's all looking great.
The house and garden as well the blog!

I agree. I enjoyed all of it very much! But I'm really sorry about the
cheese..... ;-)

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

"Sacha" wrote in message
...

I agree. I enjoyed all of it very much! But I'm really sorry about the
cheese..... ;-)
Sacha


Don't mention that cheese - I've been trying to forget about it - over £20
for a small piece! Ironically the other day the same lady was at the cheese
stall and as I walked past she offered me another sample (of the same
cheese). I politely declined. It makes you think though - one of those big
cheese 'rounds' must be worth over a thousand pounds!

We've still got lots more to do to the grounds, but it is great to see
everything gradually falling into place how we want it. Most of the work
we've done so far hasn't been that expensive either - provided we don't
count our own time, just a lot of backbreaking work. Well worth the effort
though. Certainly beats being stuck in a stuffy office all day dodging
office politics writing software to improve the marketing of giants like
McDonalds - we used to "joke" that we'd rig the code so they would never
build a take-away anywhere near our home towns!
--
David
.... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk
.... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

On 2/10/06 15:55, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
...

I agree. I enjoyed all of it very much! But I'm really sorry about the
cheese..... ;-)
Sacha


Don't mention that cheese - I've been trying to forget about it - over £20
for a small piece! Ironically the other day the same lady was at the cheese
stall and as I walked past she offered me another sample (of the same
cheese). I politely declined. It makes you think though - one of those big
cheese 'rounds' must be worth over a thousand pounds!

Well, they do say the French take their cheese seriously......

We've still got lots more to do to the grounds, but it is great to see
everything gradually falling into place how we want it. Most of the work
we've done so far hasn't been that expensive either - provided we don't
count our own time, just a lot of backbreaking work. Well worth the effort
though. Certainly beats being stuck in a stuffy office all day dodging
office politics writing software to improve the marketing of giants like
McDonalds - we used to "joke" that we'd rig the code so they would never
build a take-away anywhere near our home towns!

Tell me how! Please! I think the house looks beautiful, such a pretty
building and you must be very happy there. There are other things like the
medical care which seem to be fantastic. A friend of ours lives in another
part of France and when her husband was ill and dying, he received
absolutely wonderful treatment.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/