Garden from Scratch
Fennel and Fern has been rather silent over the past few days, and there’s a good reason. We’ve been relocating to the site of our new garden project in a city in the South of England.
In hindsight, it was never going to be an easy choice. The househas been refurbished, and the soil is full of little presents from the builders – gravel, bricks and thick metal wire. The previous owners had planted a higgledy piggledy collection of plants with little space to grow. The borders are now full of plants romping over one another, all tied together with bindweed. The boundary between the garden and the neighbouring patio is simply a trellis, leaving very little privacy. The access to the garden from the house is a fire escape, an ugly, clunky fire escape.
And when you add to this mix new owners working on a limited budget, the odds seem stacked against it. But the aim of blogging the Garden From Scratch is to encourage other new gardeners that everything isn’t lost, and that a beautiful, productive garden can be raised from brambles and bindweed. Keep checking back to find out how…
[...] Our initial post on the garden barely scratched the surface of the problems we faced. There was that nasty blue fence, for starters. It dominated the whole garden visually, and one neighbour helpfully informed us that it had made the previous owners a laughing stock. Encouraging. [...]