Renovation house garden Sonthofen

An inherited house of grandparents in the Allgäu,
the desire to live there after a working life as an architect in Munich,
first ideas, visits, sketches, photos,
a steadily growing concept for a new garden house
and the careful restoration of the old garden with roses and fruit trees, with fragments of former flower and vegetable beds and many memories of childhood.
The realization with a lot of Eigeninintiative and a lot of patience and sense for the slow growth outside in the garden.

The owner and garden user wrote in autumn 2017 about the garden:

'Yesterday - at the last minute, so to speak - the roses were planted in my new garden and daffodils and tulips were hidden. Now it's patience, wait, and - be curious.

The Christmas roses already have thick buds and will probably be the first to bloom.
The garden now seems larger, at the same time a space is formed by the hedges, a "garden living room".
What it will be like to sit on the new terrace, listening to the splashing of the fountain and the scent of the roses in the nose? Or walking barefoot across the gravel ....'

and at the end of the first year after construction in December 2018:

'Spring began for me with great anticipation. To see what had survived the winter, what was now peeking out of the ground for the first time, what was growing when and with whom. There were the grass lilies in the gravel, with their delicate flower stalks, but also the old climbing rose, which had been moved and cut back and was blooming beautifully again, against the backdrop of the new garden shed.

But the most wonderful surprise was offered by the snowdrops. There were large stands of these in the area where the excavation for the summer house and new patio had been made. With a heavy heart, I watched as the excavator pushed everything together and most of it was loaded onto the truck. But come spring, there were individual snowdrops all over the newly laid lawns. They had just been redistributed when the soil was spread.

The newly planted perennials, hedges and trees grew partly very slowly in the hot summer, so that the garden looked at times almost austere and barren. Sometimes I would have liked to plant something to it ..... But I have prescribed myself at least one year of patience before I start to add or change anything.'