Winter

Today was cold but sunny, a perfect day for gardening. Now all the areas are finished, I have a heap of maintaining to do, mostly cutting back and tidying. The weather is crazy, as everyone knows. Although it has been winter for the past month, the trees haven't quite lost their leaves. The old pear is doing a rather pretty autumn leafing, but today I wanted to show the progression of the path to the marquee pad. It's very green now because so much has been cut back and the sun shines in. I pruned the chrysanthemums today and pulled out a few weeds.
I'm waiting for my main helper to come back from his holidays and prune a few more fly bushes. I want a nice regrowth this spring.
​Below is a 'before' photo from a few years ago, and the other one was taken today.
The first photo underneath with the weird little bird bath is the garden on the left of the second top and the other is a snippet of the Red Garden (because it looked nice today.)