We finally got the fence installed to define the edge of our upper garden. It’s pretty chunky and should keep the large beasts out of the garden but the smaller critters such as hedgehogs and rabbits will still be able to get through. Now we just need a few hundred hedging plants and some wind-proof netting to provide a bit of shelter around the garden area.

This is the first section that we have cleared and we hope to have it ready to plant up some apples and soft fruit around the end of the year.

There were very few decorative plants left in the garden but we did have a good crop of snowdrops followed by a few daffodils.