A firm footing

I have spent each evening this week barrowing 14 tonnes of decorative stone around the whole garden to top dress the many paths and walkways.

It's been hard work but the transformation is dramatic.

The garden now begins to actually look like the garden designed long ago in the depths of my mind. But the garden is, of course, devoid of planting.

We have reached, nonetheless, a watershed for from now on the garden will be all about the plants and the colour schemes that will define the space.

I cannot wait!