Willow Tree Garden Lawn

It is very important when taking a photograph of the whole of one garden area that the sun is in the right place - and that the surrounding lawns are freshly mown! Here's such a view of the Willow Tree Garden - well, of most of it - and the resident lawnmower man.

I like to think that I've got the border shapes and edges right now. It's certainly been two or three years since I redug these curves. The garden borders need the lawn to show them off properly, anyway, so there is a digging limit!

The tree in the grass is a fastigate oak, which suffered in a winter's snow storm and had to be tied together with string. The spring white flowers are swathes of Iris Japonica.

I was accompanied on the photography session above by my white cat B-Puss. He kept getting in the way, so I ended up allowing him in the official photograph. It was taken in January, in the summer of 2007.