When we purchased the house, there was this gigantic raised bed in the middle of the lawn. It had some interesting herbs and perennial plants in it. Still, some of the plants were unknown to us, others were there due to “time and nature”. The whole bed was quite nice in the summer, but a pain to see in the wintertime. The worst part to notice was the fact that the whole structure was pending…. a lot! So, each and every time that i cut the grass or walked alongside the structure I couldn’t miss the fact that the whole thing had a noticeable incline. That needed to be fixed!
I did managed to fix a bit the first year and raised one side to a more acceptable level. Still, there was no logic in that bed and its positioning. After the first two years the idea of removing it started to grow on me. Some of the plants could be replanted elsewhere and the area could be used for something else and/or changed into something else to be defined in the future.
So, in April 2026 I started the move of the raised bed:
The progress of the move was quite simple. I identified the perfect location of the plants that I wanted to keep and I used them for the top of the newly created wall. See more here:
https://redcottage.sasinka.se/the-wall
The result is the following:
The other location of the rest of the plants was the spot where I previously moved the plants from the long bed that needed to be removed due to the deck change. Read more here:
https://redcottage.sasinka.se/the-deck-replacement
So those two activities went in parallel and that took quite some time and effort. Another plant needed to be moved and that was the huge Hortensia that I moved into a round bed that my wife created a year before but the plants did not well there. The Hortensia might be less “sensible” to the change…. at least we hope!
So, eventually I managed to move the below raised bed with all the plants:
I moved some of the plants here at the edge of our property that will be a bit “wild” and have the sole function to attract insects:
And others on top of the new wall as described in the above text:
The first result of the move was like the below image. A quite sad image indeed. Still, I needed to move the sand that was below the raised bed, put on top some soil and plant some grass on top of all:
This happened just a few months later:
There is of course a lot to be done until we reach our desired garden layout. A lot can and most probably will change in the future. But this is not necessarily a negative thing. The evolution is good, it’s a chance for us to learn a lot along the way and do better, avoid made errors and most importantly – do the things that we love, with the people that we love being out in the nature.
Life is beautiful! 🙂
Kind Regards,
Aramis