My garden is mainly to the rear of the house as it is in a small courtyard along with 4 other properties. The courtyard is gravelled and used to park cars, though I have another area at the back which is accessed via a farm track. I have divided my garden into separate areas which are named according to its aspect. The house mainly faces north-east to south-west.

So we have the Woodland Border (1) which runs down the left-hand side and faces north. The area to the right of this is now mainly laid to pebbles with a small area of lawn (mainly for the rotary drier) with a 1m x 2m raised bed which is called the Gravel Garden (2). To  the right of this is a low stone wall facing due south (Sunny Border).

At the back of this central area is a Dappled shade bed (3) (under the Contorted Hazel tree) and The Lost Willow bed (4) which was in shade but because the tree had to be removed in December 2022 is now in full sun. Behind this area are two Raised Beds (5), one predominantly for Herbs. This is where the garden is fenced off from my the gravelled area for parking. The oil tank and septic tank along with the soakaway are here. There is also a small Cornish hedge in this area.

Immediately outside the conservatory which is at the back of the house is my Zen Patio (6) and at the front of the house in the north-east facing courtyard is my Courtyard Container Garden (7), where most things are grown in containers. This area receives very little sunlight except in the midsummer month when the sun is high enough to reach the edge of the granite ledge on which the containers stand, so it is a challenging area.

In order to keep an eye on which plants do well in the different locations I have created a plant register to list all the plants I grow. Obviously this changes throughput the year(s) as plants die, get moved / removed and new ones added. Please click on the relevant links above to see what is currently growing in each location.