Starting work on a new garden

I've been trying to figure out how I can start blogging about the work that I'm doing on domestic gardens without awkwardly crow-barring something into the blog which seems clunky and forced. I think I may have the solution; I am about to take on a new garden and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to start a new blog which will hopefully develop quite naturally and not seem too contrived. The owners have previously had a gardener / handiman but he has proved to be a little too unreliable in his regularity. Fortunately they have parted on good terms and he aknowledged that he was struggling to commit his time as they had wanted him to.I've not actually seen the garden yet, so I don't have much to write about at the moment. I have googled the address and found it on the satellite map; it looks like the garden is part of a large Victorian house. Having spoken to the owner, I gather that the grounds of the house used to be much larger - I'm assuming that part of these were sold off at some point (possibly to a developer) but in any case I don't have to worry about them. All I know at the moment is that the garden has two lawns - a front and a back so little surprise there - and a few borders. I have absolutely no idea what are in the borders as yet and I'm guessing there may be some nasty little surprises lurking somewhere - there usually are. With the situation with the previous gardener being what it is, I'm expecting to find the garden a little overgrown and in need of some remedial attantion to bring it back into shape.I'm going to see the garden for the first time this Thursday afternoon so I will be able to give a better impression of what I'll be taking on and what I'll be facing towards the end of the week.I often get excited when I'm looking at a new garden for the first time as I always see the opportunity to refresh and enliven the garden which all too often has lost its way somewhere along the journey. I suppose I see it as my chance to make a small part of the world a slightly more beautiful place (ooh, get me being all whimsical!).I've never written a blog like this before so I'll apologise in advance if it's rambling or clumsy. Hopefully it'll be of interest to someone out there at some point...
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    Andrew - this is a great example of how to blog and I for one look forward to the garden developments.

    It would be great if you could add piccy's too.
  • Thanks Phil. I'll grab a few photos but it'll be a while before I can upload them as I'm working with an old-fashioned film camera (an Olympus OM-2SP for those photography spods out there). I'll need to get the film processed and then scanned so it may be a couple of weeks before I get round to it (you know how things are...). I'm just scanning from the actual prints at the moment which isn't ideal but I don't have a negative scanner yet (on my wish list for this summer).

    I'll probably be able to do a little bit of a comparison with some of my other gardens throughout the course of the blog and add some general reflections on how things are progressing on a broader level.
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    No problem Andrew, whenever you get the time but I do find that it really does tell a story better when a photograph is attached.

    Also, as from today, uploading a video is possible - even directly from your device i.e. mobile phone which is great for capturing that imprompytu moments as well as the contrived ones.
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