Front garden makeover
Posted by Chris @ 5:36 pm
For our first anniversary (last weekend) Mum and Dad gave us some garden gift vouchers. Dawn and I had been chatting about doing the front garden, so this weekend we decided, lets do it. So we did!
After getting Mum and Dad to come across for the Saturday I set to hacking back the big bush, we removed the crazy paving, bought the new plants and blue slate mulch, and got it pretty much finished on the Saturday. Sunday I got another load of slate, some more plants and finished the job off. Luckily for you lot, I took pictures along the way, so you can see how the makeover came about.
For those who are of a gardening disposition, the plants are: along the wall - English and French Lavender, in the middle - some herbs (Compact Marjoram, Tricolor Sage, Lemon Variegated Thyme, Oregano) and the spidery type plants (Cordyline autralis “Torbay Dazzler” (the yellow one) and Ophiopogon planiscapus “Nigrescens” (the black one), I've lost the label for the red one.) We're told by gardening experts (M&D) that the plants will like the sunny conditions in our front garden.
All the plants and materials came from the magnificent Wentworth Garden Centre, that we discovered a mere 10 minutes from our house, and in the beautiful country setting of Wentworth. It's amazing what you find when you take a different road out of Wombwell!
A final note, paving and slate is heavy stuff, as my back and legs will testify, but it is truly amazing what you can achieve in a weekend if you put your mind to it, get your parents across and work in hot conditions!
5 Comments
Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:54:00 pm
...it is truly amazing what you can achieve in a weekend if you put your mind to it, get your parents across and work in hot conditions!I'd agree with you there (apart from getting my parents across).
I hung two out of the four doors (still no handles yet though), painted the back garden fences (not quite finished yet), tidied the shed a bit, moved some of the stones and rubble from next to the BBQ, put the old marble from the fireplace next to / behind the BBQ so I've got a surface to put stuff on when we're barbecuing and then had a bath.
And I can hardly move now!
This comment posted by Tony Ruscoe
Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:12:00 pm
Erm well yesterday I did not a lot, got up late (caught on on sleep from last weeks jet lag) then played some cricket with ro then went out for my mates stag do.Today pretty much nothing, did manage to saw our old kitchen surface in half and finally get it down the tip (about 4 months later). Then spent the afternoon playing xbox (oh and a small bit of revision) then watched some tv
So I've probably had the least productive, but it makes a change!!!
Oh by the way the garden looks great
This comment posted by Anthony Main
Monday, July 17, 2006 8:46:00 am
Well done both of you the finished result looks fab. A huge improvement on the previous patch.Now you can do the back decking.!
Mum xxx
This comment posted by Anonymous
Monday, July 17, 2006 9:52:00 am
Looks good.By way of contrast, I looked at my garden yesterday and decided that I need to get myself a gardener.
This comment posted by Chris
Monday, July 17, 2006 1:31:00 pm
Oh yeah - I forgot to say that I think it looks good! (Although the lack of symmetry disturbs me a little...)This comment posted by Tony Ruscoe
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