ANOTHER ROSE BITES THE DUST!!

The dismantling of parts of the garden is continuing! Paul decided that he'd cut down all the rose on the rose arch. So that's what happened and then we made a trip to the recycling centre and this is what the arch looks like bare.

Again it's opened up the area and we did quite like this empty look just showing the shape BUT it's time for a change, so we continued onwards.

We moved two of the arch's over to the two sides considering whether to place them here but that idea is not going to work for what we want to do.

View from other side. We have left the trellis side up for the moment to stop the dogs from just walking into this area although thinking about it , they will probably just go round the other side!!

I'll try to explain what we are after doing. Having just spent the better part of an hour discussing how we hope to achieve it!.

Our aim is to give the large patio by the house the feel of a courtyard. We have considered building a brick wall either side of the end of the patio

Where I have placed the piece of board to show at what point the wall would be built, the middle archway being clear to walk through but either side cutting off the view.
We worked out the cost and the amount of work for this and decided that it would be too expensive especially if once it was up we did not like it!!

So after more discussion and working out, we have decided to go with a different option which we hope will achieve what we want.

I'm using these photo's of the holiday cottage garden to hopefully help you visualise what I mean.
We will use railway sleepers, new clean ones, not old one's like these that have oil etc on them and are not good to have around dogs and children.

We will build ours using them on edge to give us  height and fitting them together with metal rods in holes drilled through the sleepers.

We will have two raised beds either side of the opening  about two foot deep and eight foot long. The back's will be another foot or so higher and will possibly have some trellis above that, these beds will be filled with colourful planting.

Hopefully this will give us the feel of a courtyard without totally losing the garden beyond plus if we are not happy with the trellis or raised back for whatever reason we can just remove it, unlike an expensive brick wall!

So there you have it, the redesign of the patio area by the house.

Removal of the brick outhouse after it's been cleared out, the electric cut off and re positioned and the freezers been found a home indoors.Removal of the fish pond, a shame but there are only four fish left at present, so we will find them a good home or maybe set up a smaller pond somewhere else in the garden.

 Building of two long raised beds with higher backs .Hopefully this will be done over the coming autumn winter months.Then in the new year we will have to decide what paving we want for the patio because the existing paving is well past it's prime and cracking and just plain ugly!!

We will put photo's of our progress on , so that you can follow along with us this redesign.Now we need to buy some sleepers!!

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