This is how the back garden looked when we first saw Waterloo Farm back in May this year. You can see that quite close to the house was a post & rail fence with a hedgerow planted on the far side, running the full width of the garden, and also an ugly weeping silver birch tree smack bang in the middle of the view. You would never know from this picture that there anything much beyond the fence! One of our plans for the garden has always been to incorporate the bottom paddock into the main family garden by removing the fence/hedge and making it feel like one space with (hopefully!) great views from the house down the length of the garden. Well, the silver birch came out in various stages (minus branches and getting dragged out), and now we have started taking down the fence too … it certainly makes a big difference!
