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25TH SEPTEMBER 2025

Between 2011 and 2017 I enjoyed charting my progress in turning a plain grass garden into the plant filled place pictured above.

The blog was called Woodlouse House ... the name we gave to the old cottage where we lived in Nottinghamshire.

Well, in 2018 we moved to this adorable cottage in the East Riding of Yorkshire ... 

March 2018

 It gave us a much larger grass area to fill with flowers but I quickly discovered this was a race with the hungry rabbits!

This was the south garden when we moved in:

2018 was a hot dry summer so the lawn was in a terrible state; the summer house was in danger of being pushed over by the huge over hanging trees ...

  

... and nettles and tall grasses were thriving in the flower beds.

Twelve months later we had made some progress!

The old wooden greenhouse was over shadowed by trees and the frame was rotting.  

It was a total death-trap and had to be replaced.

After a lot of swearing and hard work this ...

June 2018

... became this ... 

June 2019

 and we had a lovely new greenhouse and four vegetable/cut flower beds.

Obviously quite a bit has been achieved since 2019 but this blog will record work from today going forward. 

I hope you will enjoy sharing my endeavours.

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