Garden in progress
I've posted my back garden in the dilemma section before and wanted to repost it in here to share my progress.
This is what the garden looked like when we first moved in.
We started by doing a little tiding up of weeding, trimming bushes and cutting the grass.
Next we removed the circular patio, removed a bush, tree stumps and removed soil.
Then winter came so covered over the areas where weeds were growing to help keep those to a minimum.
Now that Spring is back we started by adding more turf although i may have rushed it and may need to redo it... lesson learned.. but i saved a lot of money by building my own large wood planters.
We also filled in the front with Slate chippings and trimmed the Red Robin Bush to the shape of tree...which i think looks alot better. (1st image).
So thats where the garden is up to so far... i'll post more images when i get a little further along... the idea is to get have a garden like this but we changed the front section for the wooden planters.
Comments are welcome... thanks for looking.
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Peter Butler
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (84)Hi Eve, Well done for taking on a design project. Always an exciting challenge and by the looks of it you've done yourself proud. I know it's a bit late in the day to give any suggestions but perhaps you could put them to one side for a rainy day? Looking at your patio layout I would suggest a slight tweak in order to have some coherence with the circular or rather flowing feel you have tried to create. Notice how in my quick scribble I've taken out the sharp corners of the paving by making a curved edge, which is easily achieved by cutting the stone to suit the site, such as natural sandstone or preferably dark material such as slate. To hide the cut edges you can install edging cobbles or blocks with small low profile led lights interspersed between the edging blocks? Please see attached scribble to see what I mean. Second thing and this is of course completely budget dependent is because you already have a lovely stark white fence you might want to consider contrasting that with a dark material for your hard landscaping such as a nice slate or dark black limestone pavers? The planting looks lovely by the way!...See MorePeter Butler
8 years agoHere's an update to where my garden transformation is at. Happy with the progress so far
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