Our big flower bed

 So exciting having a new garden no one has touched for us to do as we please with, so we decided to carve up a part of the lawn to make a flower bed.

After stealing the kids purple sand which was perfect for outlining the wavy shape in the lawn, our buddy Nev helped us take all the turf off the lawn. I bought a 50 meter hose pipe to help drain water from the house water butts down to the meadow and our flower bed was the same length, what a huge flower bed, i can only imagine how long the weeding is going to take.

It was back breaking work rotavating the bed, raking and picking out stones and house bricks.  Not that you would know it from the picture, but this is the sunny side of the garden, prime location for all my peonies and irises which i was over the moon to release from their pots along with the fatsia and lavenders i got from Hitchin lavender farm.  I am really looking forward to spending time choosing plants i like to fill this big boarder.

As it was half term i had a helper on hand to give me help putting together a little plastic house that has shelving inside, which we plan to use to help bring on seeds in, i think she did a good job.