Pacific Northwest Gardening: Laurie's Garden Tour, 0 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
What I have discovered about our garden is that it has become a garden of paths. I'm not quite sure how it became this, it certainly wasn't when we moved here. It was a garden of bulky areas. Its pretty big - the cultivated area is about 1 acre, and most of this was laid to a big lawn. There was also a big area of daffodils that was yuk the rest of the time. A big area that was just fenced and fairly scraggy pasture. A long border that was 18" from front to back. Some extremely big rhodos of the purpley old lady variety. Everything was big and clunky, and largely out of date. The previous owners were not gardeners. They loved the house and land, but plants didn't seem to come into it. I spent the first 2 years working on the vegetable garden, a little intimadated to do much to the front decorative area - everyone referred to the house as 'the Harcourts old place', and they still drove by and stopped in to check on it. (Funny, saying that reminds me that the house we had before this the owners did that too. Considering I'm the constant... well, skip that). Then one day, I started cutting down and digging up, with zero plan. I just had to take ownership.

I want to start the tour at the barn, and then follow round the paths - this is a view of the area we are going to go through first - ignore the field area in front of the fence, on the left side is what I call the wild area and to the right you can just make out the barn, the greyish building. The house (reddish) is behind the barn in this shot. The lane is further toward the right. To get a scale of the area there is about 4'6" between fence posts.

This message was edited Jan 6, 2009 4:12 PM