Planning the gardens has been something that neither of us has any real experience with, certainly not 4 acres of gardens – when I returned with a trailer of plants I suddenly realised I had no idea where I was going to put them.  I mean you need to plan a garden (so I’m told) – how on earth do I do that when we are still battling bamboo, weeds, overgrown trees, duckweed pond, etc but plan we must.  I started looking at the main driveway and the Tearoom Terrace area – after all its the first thing you see when entering the Chateau so I thought that was probably a good place to start.   So Ive added a plum tree to the entrance where we sadly lost a apple tree, added 4 apple trees to the drive, planted up every pot I can find with beautiful colourful plants around the Chateau and Terrace, and then spent 2 days digging through weeds, nettles and stone and stone in the garden under the Terrace to create a little garden which I hope to add  Tables and Chairs to eventually for our Tearoom visitors and Events – now we have sweet smelling roses and colourful Forsythia, as well as Hollies and Bay – it will be a fabulous little hideaway in Summer.  I have also unearthed some very old steps in the gardens – beautiful old stone hidden under years of neglect now in view for everyone to enjoy.  Now onwards with more little areas – piece by piece.