WE’RE MUCH exercised, at the moment, with garden
matters – as I mentioned in my last posting.
A designer chap has been round with some suggested
plans, but frankly we don’t feel any of them really hits the spot.
Trouble is, we don’t quite know what we do want.
I suppose what we’d really love is for Alan
Titchmarsh to ring the doorbell with a full set of plans and a team of willing
helpers to transform the whole place while we luxuriate in some comfy hotel and
not give the matter a second thought.
Failing this, however, we’ve had some serious head-scratching
to do.
The various books and web sites on the subject we’ve
looked at all agree that the first question to ask yourself is what you want to
use the garden for.
And the truthful answer is, not very much. We just
want a peaceful place we can sit out in on a warm, summer day where we can
enjoy a nice cool drink and a game of dominoes. As much as possible the garden
should be home to as varied a selection of wildlife as possible, while
requiring as little attention from us as is practical.
A simple enough aspiration you would think? Not so,
it seems.
Gardens left to their own devices tend to end up
rather like our present one – overgrown and overrun with extraneous green
matter to such an extent that we can’t even see
the far end, let alone walk down to it.
There’s no such thing, it appears, as a completely
labour-free garden.
We are reluctant to go down the all-concrete route
to a solution, but what to do?
Like I say, we are much exercised…
