Day 302 - Landscaping

The landscaping is mostly done and looks very smart.

At the front we have natural stone chippings and a pathway to the front door.. Hopefully this will keep the planners happy.

The incomplete part is a widening of the dropped kerb. We have kicked the process off with the local council, but letter received today said they will come and review the site within the next 3 months!! And that's just review the site, not actually widen the drop kerb!






Neat drain cover in the path


Patio, Pebble drain & new Lawn


Beds and brick perches and what I managed to salvage of the lilac bush


Side Alley landscaping

Day 260 - Rear Patio

More progress at the back of the property...

 
The first of the natural stone slabs have been laid

 
This was another one where you have to choose slabs from a picture in a catalogue without much idea of how they'll really look.

We're pleased with these though, if they look this nice on a cloudy day in March they can only look better bathed in sunlight, right?!


Rest of the stones waiting to be fitted


And the drainage runs that have to be fitted between the patio and the lawn - I know, what lawn?!

Day 9 - Rubble and mess

The back garden



The pile of garage floor rubble waiting to go in the mystery hole.


Where the garage floor used to be


The mystery hole

Day 7/8 - Landscaping is hard

Decisions, decisions. Shaun has told us it'll be much cheaper/easier if we can decide on the hard landscaping before Tuesday while the digger is still here and access to the back is easy.


So Sunday we spent planning the back & front landscaping measuring what we hope will be an adequate patio without losing all the remaining garden, given that a big chunk of the garden will be taken up by the greenhouse and the trampoline.



We decided that the cherry tree out the front can go, the birds ate all the cherries anyhow and we planned the front borders.



On Monday the cherry tree came down



and the first load of bricks arrived