A disappointed year

You would think the events of 2020 would have improved my chances of getting the garden sorted once and for all. Somehow, though, working from home five days a week kind of brewed a reluctance to tackle the garden, for some reason. I do, however, plan to make a better job of it come 2021. One obstacle, though, is my wife's insistence that we landscape the back garden area to give more lawn space for our daughter. That will take some time, money saving and probably can't be started for a while anyway due to lockdown measures and such. This means that she is reluctant to have me do any major work on the garden because its current layout isn't as she wants. I, however, would rather do some work in the garden now, even if that will then be undone however many years in the future. I also can't help but think we are a bit late to create lawn for our daughter. She is nine years of age now (going on nineteen) and, by the time we get the back garden landscaped, there is probably very little time left in which lawnspace would be important to her. More likely she might want to spent a summer afternoon on a sun lounger on our (already extant) decking. Still, while I can't make large purchases for the garden without my wife's signoff, there is nothing stopping me doing a little work and maybe adding some plants to brighten the place up a bit. Watch this space.

A gardening promise for 2020

Okay, so we have been moved into our humble little semi for around 6 years now. It is well passed time we did something with the garden. Not only to personalise it and make it feel more "ours", but also to provide an outside space of which the whole family enjoy taking advantage.

The grand landscaping dreams we had when we first moved in have been tempered by familiarity and laziness and now we intend to indulge in some heavy duty planting to add colour and depth to our currently very lacklustre back garden.

Already this month, we have tidied the space a little and made some plans for what we want to do. All we wait on now is some better weather.