Green Thoughts In A Green Shade

Two months ago I paid to have the back garden, which was not so much inspired by Gertrude Jekyll as by Gertrude Hyde, gutted, permeable membrane laid on all surfaces, the beds covered in bark chips and the centre in stone chips. The intention was to plant shrubs in the beds in gaps cut in the membrane. The plan is that weeding will be minimalised if not eliminated. Largely because I do not drive/own a car, I haven't been able to get hold of the shrubs as yet and have found extremely soothing the almost Zen-like aspect that I look out on from the kitchen window as I wash up. The temptation is to leave it as it is and just make patterns in the pebbles with a rake but now my wee sister is back from her holidays her wheels will be pressed into service and the grand plantings can take place.