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HOUSE AND GARDEN IN 1988
| This page shows the state of our garden when we first
moved in in 1988. |
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This picture shows the bare house and the vast expanse of
characterless tarmac drive. The drive gradually disintegrated and
weeds began to grow up through it. |
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When we first moved in in June 1988 the front garden was little
more than a large expanse of unkept grass, an overgrown holly tree
and an equally over grown rhododendron bush. The first thing we did
was to try and tame the grass. After a few months of constant moving
it began to approach something resembling a lawn. Unfortunately it
took so long to keep it mown that we eventually decided on a mixed
texture approach keeping the grass adjacent to the drive way short
and allowing that on the rather steep slope to grow longer - but
never back to the original tangled mess. |
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Starting the "good life" is hard work and as this picture shows
the vegetable plot had been left like a builders yard by the previous
occupants. It took several week ends of hard work by many members of
the family plus two lorry loads of soil to transform the wilderness
into the plot shown below. |
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