Terracing

Pete the digger driver has been here all weekend preparing our garden! The slope has been divided into terraces - three at the moment - with a rocked back wall. Where there was once a single slope which was very steep and we couldn't figure out how to plant it, we now have wide flat spaces which we can sow with grass, rocked back walls to keep things stable, and gentler slopes that we can plant up with shrubs and trees.


































From below the house this is what it looks like so far: the beginnings of a zig-zag of what will be grass, travelling down the hill. I have a vision of the garden as it flows downwards... shrubs, trees, ground cover plants... it might take a bit of time to grow, though! First we have to put weed matting down, and plant through it, and wait for the whole thing to knit together.