Paradise Found. Down on the Farm: Part 9.

It’s been a year since the last update on our new forever home, 2½ years since renovation began. Well, we’ve finally reached a milestone. All the building work has finished... 

...and the final plants have been added to the terraforming project known as our garden.

Nearly three thousand shrubs (including 800 roses) have been planted. Time to sit back and watch them grow.

Fat chance of that. 

Maintaining the hectare of garden plus a hectare of woodland may absorb a little time. 

Weeding should be made easier with the acres of plastic liner we’ve used. The ground cover should (hopefully) eventually hide all of it. 

Vines will cover the veranda...

...Wysteria is to be trained over the swing seat...

....Jasmine will cover the flower tunnel...

...and camouflage the Hobbit hole...

The whole garden (known locally as the Garden of ‘Eede) takes nearly half an hour to walk around, more if you use the benches for the non-walking bits. Each corner has its own quirky character, from Narnia to Middle Earth. 

There’s a pond for plants...

...a pond for fish...

...a Lotus pond...

...another for ducks, chickens and swans...

...and yet another for humans.

There’s a corner for kids...

...a corner for adults...

....and a corner for those lost between the two...

This is no longer our little corner of paradise. 

This is paradise.

Cheers!