Who would have thought drawing a map of my garden would be so difficult? I'm looking at my garden as I draw it, and I still can't get part of it right.
The left hand side is easy. I have a small piece of grass, a garden isn't a garden without some green. The grass area is about 2/3 of the original size since I moved and has patio slabs around it. The best part of the garden is the L shape raised beds and gives me about 10 sqm of growing space. It's not a lot, and every inch of space needs to be fully utilised to maximise output.
At one end of the raised bed, I have a tall planter for my gladiolus. At the end is a gravel area. This year I'm going to grow my tomatoes in buckets here freeing up space in my raised plants. I can easily get 5 plants here. That's the space on the left in the image below.
Next towards the corner is a small flower patch. I have crocosmia and nerines growing here. Crocosmia are orange and flower in the summer, then the pink nerines will bloom in autumn giving me lots of colours throughout the season.
Remember I said I couldn't draw a correct plan of my garden even when I was looking at it? It's this part here. I got confused with the path at the side of the garage. I have my greenhouse here, and a lavender at the centre of the eye shape growing patch. It was in my raised bed last year taking up valuable growing space. Now it can grow as big as it wants.
It's very difficult to say which is my favourite part of the garden... Can I say the entirety?
