A sad spot in the dream garden has become one of its most beautiful and productive areas.

When we moved into the dream garden a year ago (well, a few days out from a year, anyway), it didn’t have much going on. And what was going on wasn’t necessarily what we wanted to be going on.

As is usually the case, there was a sad neglected bit at the top of the garden. The previous owners weren’t much into gardening, and I suspect this plot was a bit bigger than they could manage. So while most of the garden looked neat but boring, this bit looked bad, plain and simple.

Dumped rubbish, weeds, uncut grass: you name it, it was there.

We set to work changing it.

We dug up the perennial weeds and fenced off an area of the back garden. We marked out a path using some of the many flints lying around, and mowed another path through the long grass. And we bought some hens, and ordered some plants, and this is what this sad bit of the garden looks like now.

pretty hen garden

The hen garden still looks a bit functional, rather than smart, and there are things we can do to improve this.

neglected garden after

But it is now screened off with the willow fedge, and is surrounded by the meadow, the mini orchard and the woodland patch.

dicentra spectabilis alba

hellebores fading

We’ve only been here a year, and so there is so much more to do. But for the time being, I think we’ve got pretty good reason to be proud of the way we’ve brightened up the dream garden.

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