Garden update July 2017

We have done a few new projects in the garden, will post pictures of those later. Otherwise it is doing well, have gotten lots of strawberries, rhubarb and what we can see, there will be a lot of blackberries too.
Next things to harvest seem to be red and black currant.

Garden progress - Spring 2017

We have done a lot of work with the front part of our garden. Have removed 50-75% of the old bushes, changed the layout and planted new "stuff". The spring has just arrived here in the south of Sweden, many bushes and trees has starting to get leaves and/or flowers, but need some more time before they show their glory. There is also a lot of flowers coming up from the ground, but it will take some time before they bloom.

The rest of our garden has some new additions, finished path, added a few new plants. Over all the back was done a year ago and the bushes, trees etc. should be larger, fuller this year, just need some leaves and flowers. I am looking forward to see the garden 5 years from now.

Garden fence addition

We are done with all the fencing, small part in the back left from the previous owner, but we leave it for now. Our latest addition is a gate between the house and the storehouse (connected). We wanted to make the main garden an isolated unit, with some protection from animals that might be interested in our crops and berries.

This is how it looks now. (last picture show what it looked like last summer).

Last summer (2016)

New Fence - Update

We did the major part of the new fence yesterday, we liked it, but felt that it could be better with a few changes. We did the changes today and we feel that we made the right decision. The first version had more drama, but the final fence has better "flow". I show both versions. The neighbors were good enough to give us free hands, they didn't need the privacy, but we felt that it looked better with it.

I show the final result first and show the first attempt further down.

This is the final fence with the small changes that we did today. We had to cut one pillar/post a little and remove one to make a taller one.

This is how it looked yesterday, with 3 dramatic changes in hight.

Minor changes and painting again...

I am still doing some changes in our garden, no big projects, but enough to make a difference. I have also slowly starting to paint again. Finished two paintings that I started in the spring, but never finished.

 Before

 After

 Before

After

Our garden is doing great, the plants are growing......

 It is a while since my last post, and I am still not painting. We are more or less done for now with additions and changes in our garden. The weather is great, perhaps a little too hot, wouldn't mind some rain now and then. My goal is to get painting soon. Here is a few photos of our garden as it was this morning.

Our crops section is doing great. There will be a lot of blueberries and by the judge of the blackberry flowers, there will be lots of them too. The grape plants are doing great and seem to like the spot we chose for them.