Our house is built on 1400 m2 ground, the most of it is behind the house and a bit on both sides, but not on the streetside.
The backgarden is really big. And behind it there is a small old railway where in summer the old steamtrain runs away.
The very big trees are on the other side of that railway.
This photo was made on 24-6-2005...in the meantime all the grass has grown now..
On the photo's below you can see the situation from september 2003 till now. We removed many shrubs and perennials to make space.
When we bought the house in September 2003 the whole garden was overfilled with many shrubs and perennials,
and on small grass paths we could walk through the garden....but after rain it wasn't possible without getting very wet.
On the upper left photo you see a big conifere and the hedge...now the new terrace ends where that hedge and conifere were.
So, in the front part is terrace now. The grass path went further on the left side of the shrubs...
see also the middle left photo.
All those shrubs were removed except the last one ...that one is still a bit flowering on that photo ( Weigelia).
But also this Weigelia will get another place , when possible.
On the middle right photo...all this mess is gone now, only the Birchtree is still there with 2 shrubs next to him,
but also these will go. It was a lot of work because in the past the owners of this house have thrown many old building-stones
and more of such things there and put some ground over it ... called it rockgarden :-))
On this photo you have a look towards the old path ( see the washing-line ??)
This winter we will have a big grassfield with only 3-4 trees on it.
The border left to the old path is smaller now and the buxushedge is replaced somewhere back in the garden.
The new stonepath is on the left side from where the buxushedge was.
On the big photo you can see where the old path was, thats the new grass coming.
And on the pergola will grow nice roses and clematis. It is connected to the big catrun on the leftside.
Now we have a wide panorama from the terrace....from here you can see how big this garden really is.
And the old grass path was roughly in the middle, there is much more garden to the left side.
From the house to the beginning of the terrace is 15 meters....to the end of the garden about 60 meters.
The garden width is 20 meters....it is really a nice piece of ground. Our former house was built on only 220 m2 ...
