Our weekend work

This is W's workshed, at the bottom of the garden.  This side of it is where the pots of roses have been resting, neglected.  And it's where I want to establish a bed with foxgloves, honesty, evening primrose and other native self-seeding plants.

But first, we have to sand and paint the shed.  In this photo, you can see where W had reached with his sander, before we stopped for a tea break.  At that stage, I had varnished most of the front.  We went on to get one coat on 2 sides today.  The second coat will go on rather more quickly tomorrow.  The other 2 sides are more difficult to get at, as they are abutting the overgrown hedging on the boundary of our land.  

This end of the garden is still rather wild - this is the first step to getting it under some control.  We like wild, but "controlled wild" is our aim in the garden.