The garden then.

We moved to Montrose in 2005 . There was a lot to do to the house and so it wasn't until the back end of 2007 that we turned our attention to the garden.

This is how it looked. Ours is the bit on the right with the grass and the two sheds and the umbrella. We also own the bit along the top.  The overgrown privet hedges  were 3 or 4 metres tall and there was a pavilion like structure on the back wall. We got from one garden to the other through a hole in the wall.

We had thought a lot about what we wanted to do with the garden. The part nearest the house would be mainly ornamental and the back part would be veg and fruit. It's much smaller than our last garden and we thought it would be cleared in a jiffy thanks to the lads from East Coast Landscape gardeners. What was above the ground was cleared very quickly. Sheds and pavilions were dismantled, weeds and aged shrubs were removed and shredded. It looked great until we lifted the slab paths and tried to dig the soil. Up came one broken up concrete pond, three concrete clothesline bases, tree roots , the foundations of a small building, sand, rubble and broken glass. It was a long job......