:: Welcome to my Secret Garden!

My name is Sofie, a Swedish 23 year old  living in Dublin, Ireland. My boyfriend, Donal and I just moved in to our new house. We’re renting a very charming little cottage in the village. It doesn’t look like much at the front but as you walk to the back of the house we have 2 large outdoor areas which is covered in pebbles and will be perfect for bbqing and entertaining. In the very back we have quite a large garden that right now is in a bit of an overgrown state, but with a little TLC will be perfect! What makes the garden a bit quirky is that it’s about a meter higher than the BBQ area. You walk up a few steps and a small walkway brings you up to the garden.
The idea of this blog came when I was thinking of what to do with the large space we have in the back.  Since it’s kind of a big project I thought it would be good to document the progress of turning this large space into my little (not so) secret garden.

I love gardening, every chance I get to make up someone’s garden I’m there.  I don’t know much about different names of flowers, when to cut apple trees or when to plant different vegetables. So, I’m expecting to learn as I go along and read my way through any questions I might have on the way.
Just outside one of our ”french doors” we have 6 old animal troughs. as the grounds were once used for farming.  I want to transform them each into separate herb pots. Each trough with different herbs. It’s accessible from the kitchen so we can use it in our daily cooking.
Donal works as a food writer and photographer, so he uses a lot of herbs, fruit and veg so we are going to try to make a part of the now dumping ground into a thriving vegetable patch with onions, broccoli, wild strawberries, tomatoes, apple trees and lots more.

The other half of the garden I want to make into a perfect mix of a wild and romantic garden with a good mix of  different flowers, bushes and lovely roses. I need to find a good variety of flowers so there is something new happening (different colours and flowers) all year around and not just during the spring and summer periods.
My plan is to post new pictures on the blog at least weekly so I can see the difference in the garden and the progress me and the place is making over the year.  Hopefully I’ll get some tips and feedback from you to make the place even better!
So, secret or not, the transformation of the garden starts today!! Enjoy the ride ☺