The land survey began today, and Anglia Land Surveys were back! It was a glorious day, it was still, warm and very sunny and I was very envious as I was stuck at work.
This survey will form the back-bone for our garden design.
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Land Survey Begins – Anglia Land Surveys
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Samantha McKay – Our Garden Designer
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008We have decided that in order to get the very most out of our outside space we need some help! Therefore we have found ourselves a garden designer, Sam, and are both really excited to have her working with us and can’t wait to start the design process! We currently have three parcels of space – the current garden and the two separate paddocks – and know what we want but not where it should all go … just can’t get our heads around it! Ultimately we want to create a kids’ play area, a vegetable plot/kitchen garden, a space for chickens (and maybe pigs!), and a formal garden with beds. We also want to encourage as much wildlife into the garden as possible and have a few spaces to escape with a cup of tea or glass of wine!
Me and the Dragon Fly Relaxing – Common Darter
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I did actually manange to find a few moments to relax at the weekend as well, and enjoy the sun along with this lovely dragon fly. I am no expert, but I think this is a Common Darter, possibly an immature male, Sympetrum striolatum. I am often accused of darting around as well, so maybe we have something in common.
First Garden Birds on Feeding Station
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Within just a few days of putting the new bird feeding station up we started to attract birds into the garden. We have already seen Long Tale Tits, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Robins, Green Finches and Sparrows on the feeder itself, with Collared Doves hoovering up the crumbs below.
Encouraging Wildlife and Garden Birds
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
We are really keen to encourage as much wildlife as possible into the garden, and one very small step today was including a feeding station for the birds.
At the moment the garden is rather bereft of any garden birds, which I think is mostly due to the lack of anything to interest them into it. There are not many plants with flowers, which would encourage the insects, which would in turn attract the birds.
