I envy the sun you do get! Trees in the meadow on the south side of my house have grown to block most of the sun I did have, and a garden bed will be moved soon to chase what is left. I love the work you've done for your lovely cottage look, especially knowing how you've take the eco-values into account. Congrats!

That is a pretty house and garden.

The ability to change & adapt is what makes us LIBTARDS superior. To adjust to circumstances that call for it as opposed to stagnation as conservatards do, is admirable. Plant natives for care free gardening so that you have time for the challenges of roses. Well done. I had 4 acres of lawn which are now 2 acres of restored prairie, and 2 in oak savannah. I do not intend to resell so there is no lawn. The" lawn" is a curse & only requires a high polluting mower, both air & sound, so it is the easy solution for the lazy, or conformists in the world. Uslesss & degrading of the environment.In Las Vegas astro turf is replacing the water sucking lawn. But the concept of green has to change in these areas. A gravel mulch is a better choice in my opinion. How does that astro turf smell at 120 degrees in the shade?

Looks great, you are so lucky not to have those horrible regulations that many in America do, which forbid anything but lawn in front gardens.

It's looking great, My passion vines have been really slow this year, so best of luck, but once they start,Katy bar the door.

That pinkmound off on the left of the photo is one of my experiments. What used to be a Thirty ft tall aging crape myrtle that barely bloomed served mostly to block a hefty chunk of the precious morning sun from my front yard. Given my priorities, it had to go. (Don't hate me, lol). Rather than try to dig it out, I topped it, leaving an eight ft vase-shapped four part trunk to serve as scaffolding. Of course crape myrtle grows back like a chia pet on steroids, so I pull up sprouts throughout the growing season and give the top an annual haircut in January. I know I crape- murdered it, but my intent was never to keep it as a crape myrtle. Instead, it has become the scaffolding for a Peggy Martin rambler rose and two types of passion fruit vines. They have engulfed it. Peggy M is approaching her massive spring bloom, in which that whole mound will look like a rose tree. As soon as she finishes, 5-6 weeks from now, the passion flowers will be in full bloom, and I will get fruit from summer onward.
In this latest shot, those are native Southern muscadine grapes in the foreground.