Scrubland to side path
Now that my side path is 80% complete I think that I can post.
So before:
lots of god awful leylandii removed and new fence erected - the Mrs wanted a path to the new side door.
Started digging:
She wanted it wider, so I dug out some more
The ground was a shocker, so I decided to lay a whole concrete base to lay the stone on
All laid (forget the wood 'skirting board' - was just thinking of something
Wasn't sure what to do about the manky area at the front, so just skimmed it and quickly found some bricks and made the foundations for a step
I've laid pavers on the step now, but have not taken a picture, which is very unlike me.
I am planning on putting a wood boarder all around (that's what I was trying with the skirting board style in a previous picture) so I've got some 3600x75x225 treated carcassing timber coming next week which I'm quite looking forward to playing around with.
Planning on something like this (apart from not with an old floating shelve and a ceiling tile), so a nice clean edge and a horizontal 'shelf' to put potted plants on.
Will update as I go along / when I remember
Oh, and of course it will all be grouted, but that's the very last thing that I will do
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2 months agoTim Summers
last monthI finally managed to get some time this weekend to really knuckle down and get this finished. A few aches and pains later I left it like this. Needs some tidying up here-and-there, and some planting, but I'm going to leave it pretty much as is. With the wood left over the wife wants me to build some sort of flower (you can't see where it would go on any of these pictures as that's where I'm standing) should be pretty easy so I'll maybe have a bash at that this forthcoming weekend.
Pictures just before rain stopped play.
Also, I may swap-out the stainless steel flat bracket to some brown ones as they do seem a little bling.
Plan is to have some lavender in the corner (mainly to hopefully cover my dodgy mire-joint) and then some grasses along the fence, with slate over the earth, then some pots with some plants in along the shelf.Sarah L
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Sonia
last monthWell done. Looks great. You are very clever. Plants you can put in the bed are things like Aubretia (purple flowers that will spill over the edge), Thrift, Hardy Geranium Rozanne, creeping Campanula and Erigeron. It’s going to look amazing! Pics below, in order are Erigeron, Campanula, Geranium Rozanne and Aubretia.
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