Work-in-progress: front garden

June 2007...

... and today. Don't worry folks, I have only removed all the (several truckloads of) dead stuff; insanely-wild rose, grape vine, long-fallen reeds and various creepy-crawly equally dry-and-brittle creepers. And far too much poison ivy. And no, I'm not immune to it; I have a small blister, evidence of this weekend.

Oh and multitudes of beer bottles, milk bottles, coke cans, several light bulbs (?) and three deflated balls of assorted sizes.

I have pruned the wild roses right back. They will return and flourish now they are not swamped by the other stuff. In fact they are already budding. There are at least three small trees that can now breath, plus a few privets (someone must have tried to plant a hedge, because they line the driveway, but they had no chance of pushing out more than a few leaves a year).

Now the race is on to finish the mulching before everything really starts growing again...