Capability Brown - Eat Your Heart Out!

Much like the back garden, the front had little of interest or colour. Ok if you like Leylandii and Hostas, oh and the odd lily, but pretty bare in the winter, pretty drab all year - with the exception of a fabulous show of snowdrops, and a horrible mass of cultivated daffodils (YUK) and a fabulous but neglected, rambling rose. We have done bits and bobs ever since we took up residence, mainly sorting out the veg plot at the side and removing a few trees. We also used the front as a nursery area for anything that was in the back, worth saving, but no longer needed in there. This was it at it's best last August.

Then, early in the spring, we made a start on the bed near the drive. Rehoming many hostas and a couple of huge clumps of lilies, planting a corylopsis that had been moved from the back and a few other things which had been given to us as house warming presents.
Then, after much searching of nurseries over the last couple of months, and finally making use of the influx of autumn stock available, we set to in earnest, making the most of the best autumn weather imaginable.

The tree (or what is left of it) is temporary. The birds love to roost in it in the winter, and it currently has tropaeolum climbing up it which I am not prepared to upset. The plan is to take the tree down in early spring.

We are hoping that we will now have a garden with something of interest all year round.

That grey brick pillar will be a different colour next time you see it too!