Some success...

Today's gardening started in the rain. Relentless rain - the kind, as people rather oddly say, that makes you wet. We got very, very wet. But we made some fantastic progress, and we're both feeling really rather smug. Mind, there's so much more to do, and always will be...so not too smug.
So, this is what we started with...

And this is what we finished with:

We'll plant up behind the screens at a later date. I'm also considering shade loving wildflowers for the bare bit in front.

Below is the rapidly re-filling wood store that we use to feed the chimenea in the summer. I'm working on making a rockery out of that bed, as well, amply helped by the piles of gritstone we've found in the garden. In fact, we've agreed to make a principle out of doing as much as we can only using what we can find in the garden - quite a good principle when you're stone broke!

 

And here are some signs of spring I couldn't resist photographing: