A smiling face we cut into the grass to remind us and passers by to keep smiling, support the NHS and Care Workers - eventually we will be through the Covid crisis !

Box hedging lined paths with wild lupins growing in the grass – sadly like many plants this year they aren’t so plentiful due to lack of rain !

Part of our wooded area which is so colourful in the spring with snowdrops etc. You can see the last of our bluebells.

The borders are flourishing with the warmth and Poppies are about to burst all over the garden. We have yellow ones too and let them all self seed around the garden adding lovely colour to even vegetable patches!

Our main rose borders are yet to flower but this climbing rose beside a stone arch is a nice feature in our back yard.

We have several fruit trees and what the pictures don’t show is how incredibly full they were of blossom this year – we cant wait till picking time ! Note how we let areas of grass grow uncut – this yields many naturally sown wild flowers. We even had a wild orchid one year.

A very traditional path through fruit trees and herbaceous borders

Peonies – a lovely deep colour and surviving the winds so far ! These are an old cup variety with a single rim of petals round a golden centre.

The formality of shaped box hedging and herbaceous borders contrasted by self seeded poppies and daisies sprouting in the uncut grass.

A smiling face we cut into the grass to remind us and passers by to keep smiling, support the NHS and Care Workers - eventually we will be through the Covid crisis !

Box hedging lined paths with wild lupins growing in the grass – sadly like many plants this year they aren’t so plentiful due to lack of rain !

Part of our wooded area which is so colourful in the spring with snowdrops etc. You can see the last of our bluebells.

The borders are flourishing with the warmth and Poppies are about to burst all over the garden. We have yellow ones too and let them all self seed around the garden adding lovely colour to even vegetable patches!

Our main rose borders are yet to flower but this climbing rose beside a stone arch is a nice feature in our back yard.

We have several fruit trees and what the pictures don’t show is how incredibly full they were of blossom this year – we cant wait till picking time ! Note how we let areas of grass grow uncut – this yields many naturally sown wild flowers. We even had a wild orchid one year.

A very traditional path through fruit trees and herbaceous borders

Peonies – a lovely deep colour and surviving the winds so far ! These are an old cup variety with a single rim of petals round a golden centre.

The formality of shaped box hedging and herbaceous borders contrasted by self seeded poppies and daisies sprouting in the uncut grass.