The Garden - The starting point

I didn't take a picture of the garden as it was when I first started on it in 2009. But, it's been a slow evolution while I tried to work out what I was going to do with it, so over the last two years only a few things have happened to it. This is a picture of it in nearly it's original state. Disintegrating fencing on two sides, and an elder bush that had suckered and grown it's way to a 20' tree with about 6 decent trunks (the pic shows it halfway through being tamed, now it's been cut down to stumps at nearly ground level). The concrete paths, patio, and the manhole with the wonky concrete surround are as they are now. The veg bed has just been started on the right, and the compost bin is in. There was a 6' x 4' shed in the far-left corner of the garden that the elder was slowly growing through, so that went. So this pic is practically how the garden was - minus the veg bed (that was just more grass), minus the compost bin, and plus 50% more of that tree and a rotting, collapsing shed.

This is a plan of the garden as it is now, to give you an idea of size and layout....