I was inspired to do this project by the amazing living hornbeam construction at Het Loos, in Belgium. Monty Don visits it in his excellent series Around The World In 80 Gardens, which is how I learned about it.
Our entire garden would fit inside one of the green corridors you see in the picture atop this post! Ours is necessarily a more modest affair, being a small near square construction.
So far it’s just the basic framework. I did the floor in weed suppressing fabric and wood chippings. Alas, local moggies, inc. our beloved Tigger, have been delighted with the sudden appearance of a huge kitty-litter tray. Consequently one has to watch one’s step.
I have the cast-iron ends of a nice garden bench, found and filched from the local dump. Literally plucked from the scrap metal skip. Yet another project in the pending list is finding suitable timber to put that back together.
The idea is to have it inside the green room, as a place to sit and enjoy the dappled shade it’ll one day supply. Hopefully by then I’ll have found a way to stop cats defecating in the wood chips!?