Landscaping in the Town Garden

brick path that curves attractively and brings visitors to the front door of the house. The pathway was partly here when we purchased the property, 30 years ago. Old hand made 'convict' bricks had been used and over the first years we managed to purchase equally old bricks to finish the meandering path. The path is the most photographed area of the garden. When the visitor first opens the garden gate, they walk on the warm, apricot-pink coloured path which bisects two lawns. There are several oddly shaped garden beds planted with exotics, such as Camellias, Azaleas and Rhododendrons and dominating one bed is an ivy tree. This was a very tall almond tree that was still alive when we moved in. Over the first few years, it gradually died and I was heart broken, it had been one of the reasons I fell in love with the house.

We planted a new almond, next to it, with the intention of cutting the old one down. Not an easy or cheap job, it was huge and needed a professional tree cutter. It is not always a good idea to replace a dead tree with the same plant but I was sure the old almond tree had died gracefully from old age. The new almond tree grew and produced nuts before we got around to think relunctantly again about demolishing the venerable one. But I noticed that ivy was growing up the dead trunk and along the branches and thought that we could keep it for sentimental reasons and make an interesting feature in this part of the garden. I planted an evergreen Clematis 'Apple Blossom' to give a beautiful display in early Summer. It is now a huge ivy tree, the ivy cut away in the middle to thus form a lovely long view picture of the bottom part of the garden

Running down the left side of the garden, is a Macrocarpa hedge, sheltering us from street noises. All along the edge of the hedge is a path full of Christmas roses, of all shades and patterns, that have seeded themselves and grown into huge clumps. This path is broken up by more garden beds filled with Camellias, ornamental Cherry trees and Rhoddendrons.

I am well over the allotted space so must finish now. The outstanding success of our landscaping, as remarked on by visitors, is that we have created

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