2024 REVIEW Part 1

My review is going to be heavy on the photos. 

Looking back I can see that in the first half of the year we made quite a few changes around the garden and in the second part there only seems to be time for maintaining and reaping the rewards. 

It was a good year and we enjoyed 105 visits. We had two great yurting weekends with different family members. The Fairy and Dinosaur day, Carols in the Barn and wreath making days were all immensely enjoyed by lots of different people.                        The garden gives us a lot of pleasure and hopefully many other people enjoy it as much as we do.   

January  

Mabel got a make-over and one of the pear trees had to come out due to a poor root system which left it rocking and looking very unhealthy.

                                             February 

Tim brought us a lovely load of well-rotted manure and we also got a huge pile of chippings from tree work around the farm. Both most welcome.

I made a new set of pockets for the polytunnel.

March

I redid the fairy garden layout. It had become very over-grown.

We created a brand-new Gandalf.

A new set of elves for the fernery.

And the separate gnome garden was set up.

April

 

Just a beautiful April teabreak.

 

We used water and lemonade bottles to protect new seedlings and it proved very successful. 

May

The nine beautiful baby guinea pigs moved into their orchard home.

The woodland shower curtain blended nicely into the background.

The fairy garden was in full bloom.

June

The cob shed had its Hobbit door repaired. It nearly blew off in winter gales.

 

And here ends the first part of Freshwinds Garden review.