Garden description
The Garden has evolved over the last seven years to what it is today. All the work including the building of the walls paths, and conservatory have been carried out by us with no external help.
Front Garden 
At the front gate are ferns for a patch of permanent green, intermingled with trees, shrubs and perennials. Lyn’s favourites are lilies for perfume, and clematis for climbing and scrambling through other plants. Geranium, “Anne Folkard” also being a useful scrambler. Roses are not happy on our sandy soil, but we persevere! A quiet and peaceful “picture” is on the wall to reflect the feel of the garden.
We try to have scent and constant colour until autumn arrives.
In 2001 the front garden received a first and two seconds in various categories, in The Ferndown in Bloom Competition.
Back Garden
Enter through the arched doorway built to replace an old fence and gate. On the house wall we have made mosaics to brighten up the otherwise bland wall. Then pass through a "moorish doorway into the back garden, which contains many tender plants, some are in pots so we can over winter them under cover in the greenhouse and conservatory, the Oleanders, were brought back from Andalucia in Spain as cuttings, which we managed to root. A few small Cannas and Agaves were also brought back, the largest plants are now four years old.
The Lions head, water feature and wall, were made three years ago, we brought back the lions head, from the pottery town of La Bisbal in Catalonia northern Spain. The gravel bed was made in spring 2002, and houses our largest agave.
The Pebble Pool is about seven years old, the mill stone and pebbles were purchased from Bournemouth International Airport when they had no further use for them, due to additional buildings covering the original site of a Japanese style garden.
In the summer months we have our conservatory back to sit in, the numerous plants over wintered can go outside, a few remain inside giving colour and perfume, especially the Brugmansia with an overpowering scent in the evening. We have four Brugmansia, a pink, a yellow,a white, and a sanguinea . The yellow grows so tall it has to go outside, in case it hits the fan in the conservatory. We counted fifty-six flowers on it at one time last year.
Our aviary with cockatiels and finches has been reduced in size to become more of a feature. A large standard fuchsia near the aviary, is eight years old and was grown from a cutting.
We hope you enjoy visiting our small “patch”, like most keen gardeners we are always looking for unusual plants, but we really now need e l a s t i c boundary fences !!!
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