Planning the middle garden is turning into a bit of a ‘thing’ as you might have observed. I have so many ideas and I change my mind with the wind.

I am now back with keeping the wisteria walkway as it is, as well as other paths.  I then thought that I can create a different style garden on each side. To the left, under the pine tree, which now has ferns and bamboo I am thinking about creating a sort of Japanese garden. Indeed, standing by my acer in a pot by the front door I also realised that I could put the acer there and make it a largely foliage garden with an eastern theme.

On the other side of the wisteria walkway is a now empty plot measuring 12m in length. It is a sort of triangular shape, being 1 m wide at the bottom but 9m wide at the top (house end). I wondered about making a sort of formal ‘knot’ garden with lots of little paths after talking with Lois about the fun she had walking in the little paths in my Mum’s front garden. I love a sort of ‘maze’ only I’m not sure I have quite enough room? I also have a very small currently redundant sundial that would sit beautifully in the centre of a small formal garden like this. So this is the fresh idea. However, I would need to plan it properly and perhaps buy many many little box plants next winter to put in. In the meantime perhaps I should just chuck some seeds over it of wild plants etc. It would be nice if something other than nettles came up and I have a ‘bee mix’.

Anyway, watch this space, as you have now realised my ideas change like the wind. This is the ‘trouble’ with having so much space; when you can do anything you don’t know what to choose! I want a number of gardens in one I suppose and that is not completely unrealistic, however I also don’t want to create too much work. Perhaps I should lay the whole thing to grass and simply add shrubs and trees- but then it is such fun imagining and creating and I don’t want that to be over…