I am now concentrating on developing an organic cutting garden.  Although I am surrounded by trees and shrubs, there was no 'flower' garden as such here, since my grandmother's day.  This is very much in its infancy, but you have to start somewhere and over the past few years we have been slowly reclaiming the old walled garden (or at least the outside wall and environs of the original walled garden).  For as long as anyone could remember it had been a muddy, rutted, neglected boggy mess, with old timber and bits and pieces of  miscellaneous rusting machinery littering the area.  The old apple trees were choked with ivy as thick as your arm, and brambles, nettles and ragwort ruled supreme….not any more!!