A few photos from the local bring and buy sale this morning, Yuffie getting more attention than she’d probably like.
The flip-flop of sun and rain has been excellent for the garden, existing beds have filled out with growth and colour, and it will help all the new plants going in.
The view from above helps you imagine all the brown areas filled with plants. Kudos to Louise for her vision, nearly there!
Thanks to Alex and Dillon from http://www.ajtlandscaping.co.uk/
The Patio is done and looks great, in fact far too good for our circular picnic bench to go near it.
Now I guess it’s mine and Louise’s turn to finish the look.
The building work left the patio an eyesore for far too long; but now, with the help of professionals, we’ll be ready for garden parties this summer!
The first day of work, it rained – it was pretty miserable. It also meant Yuffie brought muddy paws into the house with her.
Fortunately this was only for one day, we had sunny weather and a hardcore base went down.
By the end of the week the patio has really taken shape, next week it will continue to be laid just beyond the gate.
These are 60×60 porcelain tiles.
So I built the deck on the inside of the pergola, kind of made it up as I went a long – but it seems to have worked. Learnt a lesson to put the printed side of the timber on the inside – I forgot this lesson when I made the step at a later date.
Louise has planted the wisteria so we can look forward to that hiding all the imperfections!
With a little help from Louise, I built the Pergola.
It’s not perfect, but it’s ours. Really you wouldn’t notice a slight oversight of measurement, and once covered in wisteria it will be lovely.
We will get some decking timber to run along inside.
A quick less than artistic document of the garden. F8 and be there!
The pergola has arrived which Louise and I will be erecting, and we’re getting quotes for the patio area.
I’ve left it a bit late for the flowers, the irises were really lovely but are wilting now.
The pond is nice and clear and the apple tree has survived my heavy pruning.
Some before photos to inspire ‘after’ photos
The roof went on today, they will be back in the morning to finish up.
The lower half of the garden is looking good, the upper half looks like a building site.
Look at the vegetation on those courgettes! Louise is wondering if she should have left more space between them.
I’ve also been in the new bedroom, roof timber almost complete.
The yellow evening primrose was out this morning, but I missed it since I didn’t go out with a camera until just now. Poppy is looking good, I like the raspberry looking thing and found a good angle on the rose.
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