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The tour of the garden is anticlockwise, and starts at the front left of the garden, goes up the drive and round the back, then down the left side of the back garden, has a look at the view over the farmers field into the distance, then goes across to the right, and back down the right, through into the side garden and along and back to the front again.
This is our back door - usually open from Spring onwards when someone would be sitting on the garden bench
This is July/02, the view from our back door, looking to the field behind. The garage and conservatory (in the next photograph) are just out of sight on the right. There is an old apple tree in the middle of the photo, about a third way down the garden , and then a smaller one in the distance. The grass just behind the smaller tree is in the new part of the garden we bought from the estate of our former neighbour and friend, Bill Fish. To the back right is the vegetable patch and you can just see the greenhouse peeping from behind the runner beans.
This is the garage and conservatory, just to the right out of the back door. It was taken about June, 2003. The creeper frames the garage widow, and is a mass of white blossom in May.
We are now in July 2002, half way down on the back right of the rear garden. The small apple tree is a Cox on a dwarf stock, which we bought a few years previously to replace the 100 year old apple tree destroyed in a storm, a year after we moved here. I have a tribute to the old tree elsewhere - see photo links below.
About Spring 2003, we have stepped back a bit to get a better view. You can see the Cox of the previous photo, the field behind, and the newer greenhouse at the back right of the rear garden
This is the left border in the bottom half of the garden - about June 2002.
Taken about the same time as above, this is a close up of the azeleas.
This photo, and the next two,
Now at the back of the garden, this is a view over the farmers field taken in July/01. On a clear day you can see on the horizon the steeple of St Michaels in Bishops Stortford, about six miles away. Crops rotate with wheat, barley, oil seed rape, etc. There is usually something growing all the year - as soon as one crop is harvested, the ground is ploughed, harrowed, and seeded, even before winter to get an early start next season. 
This was taken about the middle of 2003. It is the bottom left of the garden. We grow a lot of rhubarb because we like it, and because it crops early, and then continues all the way from Spring into Autumn. There is more rhubarb round the corner out of sight
This is Spring 2002 just after we got the new greenhouse, and had started to get use out of it. These seedlings grow on quickly on a bench, and then they and the bench are moved out and into the back of the side garden to harden off.
This is about late Spring 2002, looking into the greenhouse with the bench removed. To the near left are cucumbers, then assorted peppers not yet in the beds, and the rest are tomatoes. The beds are emptied of soil each year, and refilled with a mixture of my own compost, bought in quality compost (3 huge bags for £10 from Van Hage's) and sand to aid drainage.
This is early summer with the tomatoes doing well and in blossom.
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