The Gallery…My Backyard
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I’ll admit it, ‘yard’ isn’t perhaps the best word because there’s no getting away from the fact that our backgarden is alarmingly large. Nor from the fact that it’s been horribly neglected for years and years. The ‘lawn’ is now mostly moss, interspersed down the middle by Ragwort Alley. The ‘croquet lawn’ (on the right) is no more and is now littered with the Megaboys’ assorted garden tat. To the left it gets messy. Greenhouse, a collection of birdfeeding stuff, vegetable beds cocooned in mesh and wire to keep the Bunny Brigade out, washing line, pile of gardening stuff awaiting a home.
Closer look at the veg patch, complete with early morning sunflare. Can’t detract from the pile of canes waiting to do someone a mischief.
Behind the veg patch is what the boys call ‘the forest’ which is somewhat stretching the truth. Kind of hard to know what it is or used to be, probably an orchard at some point, very possibly a formal garden since there are remnants of walls knocking about. Mostly it’s just a pickle of trees and nettles, the boys have a den in there.
More scrubland, plus {bonus} the optimistically named ‘conservatory’ which is known as The Shack.
MrDiggy, perched at the bottom of the garden earlier in the year, just keeping an eye on things
It’s going to be an enormous to job to get the garden in to any kind of decent state. We need to take down a lot of trees, clear years of neglect, create a terrace, mark out a proper vegetable garden, re-lay the lawn etc etc. I reckon the house will take us 2-3 years to get it straight. The garden? 10 years I reckon. Sigh. Want to see the best bit of the garden?
This is round the side of the house…nice…wooded..shady etc…but that’s not what I’m talking about. See the gate, at the back in the middle? That leads in to our neigbours’ property, home to two little girls the same age as the Megaboys and they’ve known each other since birth. How lucky are they all? Their own little access to each other. Pity about all the nettles on our side. And the dead rabbit carcases strewn about. But then you can’t have everything can you? And what’s a crop of nettle stings and a bit of myxomatosis between friends?
Absolutely gorgeous….I’d love that backyard!!
and 10 years!!! You bet, unless of course the boys found a secret stash of money somewhere out there that you could pay the landscapers to do it!!
Wow I thought I had a great garden until I saw yours. That is pretty much my dream back garden.
wow, what an absolutely gorgeous piece of land! – btw, just this morning a read a kierkegaard quote, which i can only remember the gist of (old age setting in!): possibility is sweeter than pleasure…
Trust me in a few years you’ll be rejoicing when another bout of mixa hits… unless Mr Spud turns out to be an ace shot that is
Its a gorgeous space and I’m sure it’ll look great in a few years
We have spent 4 years knocking down and levelling our back area and are now starting to plant beds – I thought it was a 5 year plan, turns out 10 years is going to be nearer the mark (why can’t plants grow faster???)
Wow, what a fab ‘yard’! Looks like a great place for children to explore. (I am secretly very jealous) :-)
What a great space for your kiddies to explore! x
I thought my garden was huge but yours is ginormous! It is also very lovely and that blonde curly haired child, what a beauty!
*jealous face* #thatisall
what a brilliant garden LOVE it
OMG…That is bloomin massive! You Lucky lucky thing! What an amazing space for your kids to have lots of adventures in!
You could have a festival in there!
So what if it takes ten years, so much fun to be had in it in the meantime! A lovely space, full of magic – good luck!
Wow, what a gorgeous back garden. I’d love a large garden like that for the kids to really run around in but would have to get a gardener to maintain it, phew it must take awhile to mow your lawn!!
Are you sure that’s not an estate? It just looks amazing and a children’s wonderland :)
Wow, thats amazing! Not jealous of the mowing or even getting back into lawn but that’s a serious amount of space.
More like a square mile than a “yard”! Hard work ahead for you, but heaven for the boys. I’m so envious of all that flat land.
What a fantastic space and a great project.
Oh my, you could get lost in that yard! I love the photo that has the wheelbarrow in it…it looks like it should go in a dolls house! Amazing…would love to explore. x
Please may I come and live with you? I’ll bring my Fiskers and my trowel?
That is a bloomin’ fabulous garden!
whoa… i’m all overwhelmed for ya.
what was that old joke about myxomatosis????
oh my gosh what a yard, yep it will take a couple of years to get straight but what fun doing it. It has taken just over 12 months for us to clear our house yard of the horrible big burry things that were here when we came last year. We haven’t even touched the top 5 acres, which is now home to at least 3 large kangaroos and a million hares!!!! charge on i say
Can’t believe how small the goals look in the first photo – like a pea on a drum! (Do other people use that phrase or just me?)
Cracking garden!
I would love a back garden like that, although possibly not all the work involved! I imagine your children think it’s perfect and amazing just as it is though, it looks like a kids paradise.
You’re right, you do indeed have room for a tent (or several) When shall we come LOL
Gorgeous, that is what childhood should be about xx
i can so relate…tho’ sadly, with our place, it’s the reverse…we’ll have the garden sussed in 2-3 years and the house in 10. *sigh* especially as by then i’ll be in my FIFTIES! ack!!!