August 2020, after the strimmer took everything back to ground level - mostly a lot of bramble, but also a few stubborn herbs like oregano, mint and fennel.
August 2021, spot the difference!
The long wooden planter is the front "wall" of the garden (will be loaded up with saffron crocuses as soon as they arrive - should be this week or next) ; the staircase on the right (made entirely from salvaged wood) gives access to the terraced veg beds, but also provides morning shade for a narrow bed on that side. The stone was all found on site (mostly in one place, buried, presumably left over from when they built one or more of the barns).
Still need to work on the space within. There's a labyrinthine path of terracotta tiles there that I laid 17 years ago which I'll lift and re-lay, and then make some stone-filled beds for a mixture of decorative and functional use.
) decorative gourds that self-seeded from a line I planted last year. Like yourself, I hate to simply grub up and throw away an otherwise healthy plant, so I moved them to the (new) bank that makes up western edge of the herb garden. They went mad! What you see there is after they've been aggressively pruned twice.
