I don't think I've posted any pictures of the dining area now its sort of finished. I've built a retaining wall about 1' high out of left over stone to hold back the soil and also to define the area. We serve cream tea's at weekends if the weather is nice, and it has proved very popular. The steps are still not finished as the stump at the top has proved very difficult to remove, we're going to try and burn it out next.
I've widened the beds up the steps to form a flowing bed down the side of the hill, next to the dining area. I am going to put a screen up so the woodland garden can not be seen, again to get people to explore it, once they are on the trail they stay for ages, its just getting them to make the walk. I've not decided on a theme for this area yet, probably Mediterranean as its so hot especially with the 15' stone wall of the leat behind it. At the end of the arbour we have made another circular arbour, this is made from the remains of the trampoline, which sadly passed away after 2 joyous years of bouncing. The children did think we were going to re-install it at the new 6' height, and were so disappointed when we informed them 'no-way'. Hopefully given a couple of years it will be unrecognisable as a trampoline.
Still digging out the pond, all the stones I find in this area are going to make a pebble beach so that wildlife can get out easily. I'm also finding some huge rocks that take 2 of us to remove, but they will make nice features in their own right. We had a load of lovely stone given to us (cast offs from a developer) hopefully enough to piece together a path on the right of the pond, leading to another summer house, so we can watch the wildlife on the pond. Also I've decided to dig out a 3rd pond slightly higher up and perhaps even a small waterfall leading into the pond. We are probably going to re-circulate the water although running water from the brook through it and back into it would be a prefered method, but possibly illegal.
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