A Tale Of Two Borders

These two garden borders - the Apple Tree Garden (on the right) and the Wattle Woods (on the left) both used to have New Zealand flaxes at their end points. The snow storm in 2006 flattened both flaxes - now only one survives.

Wattle Woods and Apple Tree Garden Borders - 2008

Rusty the red Border Collie insisted on posing when I took this photograph. It's spring, and the apple trees are in blossom.

Wattle Woods and Apple Tree Garden Border - 2004

Below is an early archive photo of the narrow rising stretch of lawn which separates the two borders. I used the flaxes as balancing accents on each side of the gap.

Wattle Woods and Apple Tree Garden Borders - 1998

I kept the gap in the grass between the two borders so that cars with trailers full of compost (for example) could drive through. But none ever has. Oops - perhaps it's just a tiny bit narrow...