My lovely garden is full of surprises. We moved into the house in November and the first surprise was a deer and her youngster strolling along chewing away at the roses! Now, I may learn to curse this sight as I get more attached to growing roses, but on our first morning in the house it seemed so special and sacred. We felt honoured to watch as they timidly made their way across the lawn to the woodlands and fields beyond.
No photo of them yet - but soon!
There is a 'wall' in our garden. Very Pyramus and Thisbe! It was apparently an old apple store (any advances on that theory?), now its just a ruin of a wall thats 80 ft long, 12 ft high covered in ivy. Elders, sycamores, ash and laurel are happily growing inside the old building! There is about 8" of soil on the ground inside, plus the remains of an old fireplace and lots of bricks and rubble where the back wall has fallen down. It feels like a hidden treasure and is my GRAND DESIGN project. In my mind it is a restored pavillion - but more of that later.
I have so many plans for the garden; first there is some research to do. It was an orchard to a big Edwardian house, the area of the 'apple store' also has two wells (we have uncovered one so far - huge and brick lined - photos later - the other has been filled in apparently) and I was told another area once was once a 'glass blowing' house. I want to uncover the history and bring new life to the garden - not as a formal landscape, but by encouraging biodiversity and building on the sense of enchantment that already lingers here.
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