I had three pond which I filled in with hardcore from when the foundations were built for my conservatory and saved the price of a skip. Topsoil on top and ferns for birthday and Xmas presents plus foxgloves and mulleins and bulbs have turned the pond site into a lovely fernery. You coluld have a stumpery with ferns and your tree stumps. Looks like a heavenly garden already for small boys. My four had a three storey tree house, lots of dens, one of which had "fossils" in . That dog skeleton would have been labelled with a pseudo Latin name of some long lost dinosaur by my boys. You can have great fun making a garden for all the family. Put the plants you love into pots and group them like Christopher LLoyd used to do and you can still see at Great Dixter. Your garden will be a great source of happiness I am sure. Oh, and do help your family's health by growing lots of veg - in raised beds if need be.
I would advise to err on the cautious side until you get to know your garden and be super careful pruning back. It takes a full year to get to see everything and find everything in a garden you dont know and all the joy is in the discovery ! So enjoy !! Take it steady and keep taking photos it helps with your memory and with planning when you cant go out there in winter months. Looks like an amazing garden with some lovey lovely plants
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daryl2 can we see pics of what you have done?
I had three pond which I filled in with hardcore from when the foundations were built for my conservatory and saved the price of a skip. Topsoil on top and ferns for birthday and Xmas presents plus foxgloves and mulleins and bulbs have turned the pond site into a lovely fernery. You coluld have a stumpery with ferns and your tree stumps. Looks like a heavenly garden already for small boys. My four had a three storey tree house, lots of dens, one of which had "fossils" in . That dog skeleton would have been labelled with a pseudo Latin name of some long lost dinosaur by my boys. You can have great fun making a garden for all the family. Put the plants you love into pots and group them like Christopher LLoyd used to do and you can still see at Great Dixter. Your garden will be a great source of happiness I am sure. Oh, and do help your family's health by growing lots of veg - in raised beds if need be.
I would advise to err on the cautious side until you get to know your garden and be super careful pruning back. It takes a full year to get to see everything and find everything in a garden you dont know and all the joy is in the discovery ! So enjoy !!
Take it steady and keep taking photos it helps with your memory and with planning when you cant go out there in winter months. Looks like an amazing garden with some lovey lovely plants 