My little slice of happiness

Today, I met with the owner of a garden down the canal. There is already a volunteer in the garden (whom I met with a couple of weeks ago) but it was a bit too much for her to manage on her own. Everything went well and I was so excited by the garden. L, the other volunteer has a patch further up the garden and I have offered to tackle this overgrown stretch. It currently has saplings, old raspberry canes, brambles, grass, St John's Wort(?) ferns and various other miscellany running wild.

It will take a fair bit of work to clear out the bed. I'm planning on initially hacking it all down to about knee high to make it more managable and then starting at the end nearest the house and working my way along, digging everything out. Normally garden shares work by the grower giving some of the produce to the owner but as she's not taken anything from L, I've offered to plant flowers in the section nearest the house for her enjoyment. I can then use further along for fruit and veg. The owner, E, mentioned she likes hydrangeas so I'll probably stick in one of them, a clematis to cover some of the wall and then some general flowering plants. I'm going to leave planning my veggies until I see how long it takes me to clear the ground.