"Balmoral Park" farm garden

 So I have finished tidying up and filling in the spaces in the first of the back terraced beds. I feel this is going to be a lengthy process, but rewarding. There were a lot of spaces to fill in as this bed had been almost completely destroyed by the drought but fortunately there is also a resurgence of volunteer plants in the garden and some survivors that I haven't seen for a few years are making their way back as well. The Coriander has gone to seed several times and is rewarding me a with a veritable carpet of coriander, these volunteer plants seem to be so much hardier than those that I buy or the first crop from new seeds. I guess they have acclimatized. I will have coriander and lime ready for Easter so there will be some Asian inspired dishes on the menu.  There is also Italian Parsley coming up everywhere, its not as advanced as the coriander but will last much longer and the bees just love the flowers. It will fill a lot of spaces up. The Dill is not as prolific but...

 We have a pretty big garden here, I always say its two acres but I'm just guessing really! Nevertheless it is pretty big. Many times we have said we  wouldn't plant anything else but that doesn't happen at all. We have five large rose beds and many less formal areas as well as a big vegetable patch and a lot of fruit trees. It has been a labor of love and guided by  whim and opportunism rather than knowledge or science a lot of the time. Often it feels like a monster and in over the fifteen years we have been gardening here we have had two major droughts and  many life events that have impacted on its development and care. Last year when I finished work, our daughters gave me a consultation with a landscape gardener, this was extremely useful and gave us a path forward for the future. However our year was significantly impacted by covid as we had two of our grandchildren here for most of the winter and I was homeschooling as well as running a household with two youn...