Garden transformation Part 7 – Raised shady beds A month after moving in, we’d taken out some unruly overgrown conifers. There was a beautiful old sandstone wall hidden behind the conifers but it wasn’t high enough. We needed to put something back in their place to give us privacy from a house at the back. As we’d had a raised bed with bamboo growing in it at our last house, we thought of it straight away. It’s a perfect screen as its evergreen, but somehow feels light and airy not heavy and overbearing. I love how it sounds and how delicate it looks as it moves in the wind. October 2013…