Annual Photos

Every year I try to remember to take eight photos in the garden in July.  They are each taken from the same position (roughly the eight points of the compass).  It is really interesting to look at them now and then and remember the steps the garden has gone through.

This year I forgot and I ended up taking the photos the third week in August instead of mid-July - better that, than not at all.  Here is the set of the east facing border as an example of what I mean by change.



Our first summer in 2007 and we had the patio in and the borders cut.  We had another small seating area in the corner and the borders were colour coded.  This was the red border.

2007

 Next year a summerhouse had replaced the seating corner

2008

 By our third year all the border had been dug up an plants moved elsewhere and we had a veggie garden

2009

 Still with our three veggie raised bed boxes

2010

 Looking even better in 2011.  Lovely rhubarb and great runner beans

2011

 Wionder what I had planted in 2012?

2012

 By 2013 I had given up doing battle with the cats and a flower border returned

2013

2014 and the roses are planted and the fence is mellowing.  I can just see the course of bricks for our conservatory which replaced the patio

2014

 By 2015 the conservatory seems like it had always been there and the border seems to be flourishing

2015

 Needless to say the next year out it all came out and new planting went in

2016

 That's still there this year..... who knows what will be there in 2018.

2017

  (26/08/17)