BON VOYAGE- HOMEWARD BOUND MR & MRS T

Found time to take few photos around the garden this morning. I'll post them on here and give you all the guided tour when I've got a bit more time.

In the meantime here's a little taster, taken from the upstairs window, where I can look out over our new garden and the countryside beyond, while keeping in touch with all you lovely people here on GC.

 

@Trunky how lovely for you, and for us on GC to see your beautiful new garden

 

Looks lovely @Trunky Hope you and the Mrs have settled in, all the best in your new home

 

A lovely garden Trunky and I'm looking forward to the guided tour.

 

No thanks Shiney, we had some of those at the last place. One of the reasons we got out of Ipswich.

 

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@Trunky be careful that nasty neighbor might hear you ..... as your still in Ipswich my friend l@@k to your left

 

Thanks for the reminder Bee, location changed now.

All the neighbours we've met so far here seem very friendly. In addition, the fact that we've moved back into the village where I grew up, about a mile away from my childhood home and literally a stone's throw from my old village school (I can see it from my back garden), means I really don't feel like a 'newcomer' at all.

 

That's because you are not a "newcomer" at all ... you are a ... "returner" (my village is full of "returners" ... which simply amplifies my position as a newcomer

 

Well, we've been here two weeks now, so it's about time I let you all have a peep at the new garden.

It's a well established garden, with quite a 'rustic' feel to it. There are plenty of established trees and hedges, the rest is mostly down to grass with a few other random shrubs dotted about.

Not much in the way of flower borders, but I can work on that as a long term project. I'm going to follow the time honoured gardener's maxim of giving it a year to see what we have and find out what works and what doesn't as the seasons progress.

Overall view of the garden, from the upstairs window. It's south facing, sloping gently away from the house and about 30/35 yards in length.



The gate at the side if the house has a lovely fragrant Japanese honeysuckle next to it (and beginning to scramble over it), then the first sight which greets you is a big, ugly conifer which you have to negotiate you way past to get to the back garden. Think that might have to go next year.






The conifer is also surrounded by several clumps of pampas grass, which you have to squeeze past on your way through - think they might have to go as well (not looking forward to that job ).



The first section of the back garden is mainly down to grass, shrubs and small trees. There are two large wisterias, one scrambling over an archway and tree house, the other now simply a large 'bush', originally planted to cover a small wood store which it has now completely engulfed.







Through the archway is another, smaller section of garden, surrounded by mature hedges and quite densely planted with various trees and shrubs.





This lovely, rambling old hedge runs up one side of the garden and is at least 130 years old. I've looked at old ordnance survey maps of the site going right back to 1884 and it marks the line of an old field boundary.



One nice feature is this old style water pump near the back door. It's a working pump too - the previous owner was a retired plumber and has rigged up a system whereby the rainwater from the house is collected and stored in three large tanks, which provide the feed for the pump.



The front drive, fairly narrow but a decent length, which does make the house a little more secluded. The hedges belong to the neighbours on either side, one is a strange mixture of thuja and beech (never seen that before) and the other looks like it was originally planted with red-leaved prunus, which has now been invaded by hazel, some mahonia and one sycamore (which I might suggest to the neighbour, in the friendliest possible way, needs getting rid of ).
Since both hedges belong to the neighbours, my only job will be to keep them cut on our sides.



That's it for now, I'll try to post a few more photos when time permits.

 

@Trunky what a lovely Trunk-update having a stroll around your new garden - Such promise awaiting garden plants, the equal to unbeknown friend's arriving in Springtime
So much to look forward too -exciting times ahead indeed and i really loved the Old fashioned pump ...a working feature too how clever is that