wander into my garden with secateurs in hand to create a small garden bouquet , but I didn't want the usual Autumn tones of just reds and orange, and I wasn't disappointed by what I found. Share this: Like this: New beginnings ..... Firstly let me apologise for my absence during September. After a busy summer of school holidays and dashing around, ensuring my 10-year-old son didn't have chance to say 'I'm bored!'. Time away from planning blog posts and be able to leave the house with out a note-book and camera, gave me the opportunity to reflect on the past few months & years. There are moments of the past that I would want to remember forever and moments that still make me sad. I've had the time to mentally box things up and put them away and also time to realise that somethings are fundamentally part of you that you can run but you can't hide! A few weeks ago I went back into my attic and sat on the floor with 8 years of garden designs and looked through every one of them, I could see how I had developed, but also how passionate I was in the early years. As my first design & landscaping business had grown the passion was gradually replaced by the needs of the day-to-day running of the business, by becoming more involved in accounts and managing up to 20 staff had drained me, I accepted that selling the business had been