First look at the new garden

Regular readers will know that my family and I recently moved. We're still in Wiltshire, we just moved a town over to Calne. The garden that we've moved to has been well maintained and has awesome soil compared to our previous garden - a limestone rather than the Oxford clay that made gardening a thankless task. But it also leaves us with plenty of scope to make changes.

As you can see in the photograph above, there is a central area of grass with borders each side. At the end is an area with 4 raised beds - one with plenty of strawberry plants, some with fruits developing. Nearer the house, but obscured by the rear extension is a patio area and on the right is a grape vine.

 Starting at the patio, here are the potted plants that we brought with us - including the Magnolia stellata from the previous Tree Flowers post. Below is another view of the patio with our bench and the grape vine. Noah favourite place to garden (as much as a 13 month old can garden) is in that bare patch just before the grape vine!

We weren't sure which grape it was until yesterday when Lucy found the label that much have come with the plant. It's a wine grape called Marechal foch. I guess we need to find out how easy it is to make wine!

Moving along the path, there is a trellis with red jasmine, bleeding heart, roses, and fuchsias.

The garden has lots of roses, but I've not seen any labels yet, so I'll try to identify some at some point. Not having had many roses before I know I have a lot to learn with regards to rose categories and flower shapes - not to mention the the thousands of cultivars, I accept that I may never find the exact ones we have. Either way, I'm enjoying looking and smelling them!

There's also Aquilegia 'Black Barlow', which looks different to the aquilegias I've seen in the past.

At the end of the garden are the raised veg beds. Lucy has also been planting some salad plants and parsnip seeds. We've netted all the beds and are considering some slug control options.

The other day we purchased and planted a lovely bunch of poppy plants called 'Garden gnome'. They can bloom in a variety of colours and we think they look really lovely together.

Thanks for coming for a wander around our new garden! Have a great day.