Well, as you'll have noticed, my posting has been sporadic to say the least over the past weeks. Apologies for this!! I referred in an earlier post to the building work that was taking place here, thus forcing us out the house for a while. Well, this continued rather longer then expected and then I was out of the country again.
Things have calmed down somewhat now, though, and I thought it's about time I started sharing my garden here, the progress that's been made so far and the future plans for it. This first installment takes me back to a photograph that was taken almost a year ago today.
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This gives you a good idea of the starting point we inherited this garden in; namely, pretty blank. There was a circular patio that I took up, mostly because it was overgrown but also it seemed to be in rather a random place. The outline is still visible halfway down the lawn and the slabs stacked up under the tree in the top left corner.
Another intriguing feature of this garden is the absence of any boundary down one side. I say intriguing, it's actually not far short of downright annoying. The path that runs the length of the garden is effectively the boundary. This makes a garden design somewhat tricky as I've been having to contend with a garden that has no vertical dividing boundary. There are numerous difficulties with taking up the path and putting a boundary in, so the solution I'm working towards will work around it.
Some further background: the garden is around 30m in length and about 3.5m in width. So very long but very narrow. It's west-facing, so gets a fair amount of sunlight throughout the day.
So, this is the canvass that I started with.....and just to set your expectations progress has been slow so I'm not much further along. But I will be sharing the plans and will be looking forward to getting your thoughts and ideas as I get further along.
And if any of you have any experience of working without boundaries (literally in this case, not metaphorically), then I would be pleased to hear them.
Sunday 13 July 2008
Monday 7 July 2008
Share Your Reading
I found this fantastic application the other day that finally persuaded me to open a twitter account.
It's called bkkeepr and can be found here. And it's really easy. All you do is send it updates with whatever you happen to be reading using the ISBN number and it'll log what you're reading (and update it to wherever you decide to put the code). You can even just use it to bookmark where you are in the book.
It seems like a really simple way of keeping track of your books and let other people know what you're reading. So you will now see the feed at the top of my blog.
And talking of reading and particularly gardening reading, if you haven't yet found it, check out Garden Monkey's spin-off site, Garden Monkey's Book Flange.
It's called bkkeepr and can be found here. And it's really easy. All you do is send it updates with whatever you happen to be reading using the ISBN number and it'll log what you're reading (and update it to wherever you decide to put the code). You can even just use it to bookmark where you are in the book.
It seems like a really simple way of keeping track of your books and let other people know what you're reading. So you will now see the feed at the top of my blog.
And talking of reading and particularly gardening reading, if you haven't yet found it, check out Garden Monkey's spin-off site, Garden Monkey's Book Flange.
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