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| Pond full of water with pots of water irises and water forget me nots |
During last winter, when the pond was iced up, I foolishly broke the ice with a garden fork and tore a hole in the lining of the pond too. We tried to mend it but failed miserably and I have been filling the pond day by day with watering cans for the whole (rainless) summer. Last week Lawrence, my grandson, came to mend the pond with a new liner. He's done a wonderful job and it is really fantastic to go out and see the water retaining its height. There is room again for the frogs, so I won't find any more sitting miserably in a small pot of parsley.
A friend came to see me the other day and suggested I take a picture of the whole garden. This is very difficult because the garden is long and narrow and divided by hedges, but I realise it would be good to have a picture of as much as possible, so here goes.
 Garden from the house
 | Side of the garden with two apple trees, one pear tree and one damson
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The whole garden is so long and narrow that I have divided it into three separate bits. The front is a concrete patio covered in pots of tomatoes, aubergines and wild flowers with some bright red dahlias.
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| Dahlias on the patio |
The sides are long beds that started off by being a foot wide and which I have widened to two and a half feet, with a smaller lawn in which I grow wild flowers. There is a cooking apple tree in the lawn from which I get a year's supply of apples, cooked and kept in the freezer. There is the pond, now mended and right at the back a shed for garden tools on the roof of which the foxes lie in the sun. There is a huge tree at the back and the whole garden is surrounded by a low wall.
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