I can't quite believe it's been three months since my last post and that it's coming up to a year since Steve and I set up our business, Coachhouse 8 Ltd. It's been an exciting time and a big learning curve for us both so far and what with work and little jobs still to do around the office, the blog unfortunately came bottom of the list . Now, with things a little less hectic, I'm really looking forward to sharing my daily inspirations and loves again on 'An Hour From Eight' . Even though there are days when I still feel like I'm chasing my tail we have managed to tick quite a few things off our list. One of those things was to tackle this.....
The yard out the back of the office was completely overgrown and we could see it's potential as a space to sit on a warm day for informal meetings with clients. With the help of my dad and his garden tools (which were far superior to ours!) the weeds were shifted and we were left with a nice area in which to add a bit of colour.
This is how it's looking now.
I picked up the number 8 while we were on holiday in Devon.
I'm not going to pretend I know much about gardening but this little guy was on his last legs in the garden centre. The lady gave me it for 90p and told me it would probably flower again next year but once planted it started to thrive much to our delight. The flowers are such a gorgeous shade of blue!
Larry loves the yard and is able to spend so much more time basking in the sun than us.
Seeing as we only rent our office, we tried to be as economical as possible when sorting the yard area. We re-used the existing paving flags and just rearranged them in a more convenient location and added a number of pots for some bursts of colour.
Larry.
