The willow is already budding...

Looking great - needs to be watered twice a week for a while though...

Once it starts bushing out we can either keep it trimmed back so you can still see the structure, or let it bush out - we'll see how it goes!

Getting there - the neighbours like it! They popped around and spoke to Anthony

Weaving...

The first few meters only 80 to do.... Looking good already

French Anthony rotivated the line where the living will hedge will be.

More kitchen garden

kitchen garden again

The kitchen garden was in a bit of a state.... Anthony has weeded and replaced some of the dead things (there were surprisingly few!)

A new laurel to fill out the gap between the gates and the house.

Anthony has been down to France to plant up a living willow hedge on the boundary of the property - 80 meters of it! These are the living willows that he'll be planting over the next week or so....

Lots of leaves after the storms this winter. Bruno is coming around in the next couple of days to start clearing up.

We are thinking of getting the pool heated this year. Considering whether to get an air heat pump or to hook up the pool to the geothermal heat pump we already have.

The next door neighbours house is coming on. We are getting Anthony to put a living willow hedge along our boundary in March.

The Lavender outside the farmhouse has survived.

Anthony has been pruning in the orchard

All looking a little bare

Its winter and the garden is still doing OK

Around the fire pit at night

Pool lights working now

The new gates!

The lavender is still alive!

Bay tree doing well

Olive tree doing well

Roses coming on well in the arbor

Got to find someone to build me a big table from the wood that came out of the barn renovation

Garden is looking smart

We are going to put a free standing hammock on the barked area

The copper beaches around the pool

not really a meadow yet...

looking towards the kicthen patio

Wild flower meadow is a little patchy...