Busy Busy Busy

A trip to a local family run nursery this morning led to a busy afternoon in the garden. The top deck of the new beds in the back garden is now planted up.

All that remains is to dig out a load of old shrubs at the back and turf this area. Then we have the delightful job of clearing the lower deck. Currently it is a mound of gravel and soil (it seems that any left over building materials from the extension were used to raise the levels of the rockeries!). This will need riddling to clear the gravel out, then the remaining soil will need moving to a temporary area, ready to use in another phase of the 'Great Garden Plan'

The gravel will be used (or some of it) to provide a french drain to aid water drainage from the patio, which currently acts as a bit of an extension to Ullswater when we get heavy rain.