The biggest project during my "retirement" was the finishing off garden overhaul which started at the beginning of the year when I first stated pulling out the overgrown plants. Check out the before and early WIP shots
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Once all the garden beds were emptied out, the first job we tackled was replanting the tiered garden beds with some gardenias and small hydrangeas.
The much bigger task was dealing with the rest of the area. We wanted to make the garden beds a lot narrower because the space was relatively small and I wanted to maximise the lawn. However this meant moving two very large sandstone blocks. We had a few attempts are moving these - firstly Mr B got all excited about hiring a "small bulldozer" to do the job (and some of the levelling work). But it turned out to be absolutely useless. So instead we hired a circular saw to cut the blocks into pieces which could be carried. This meant that most of the blocks could be used in a small retaining wall at the back of the lawn. We then levelled out
I am kicking myself for not taking more WIP photos - but Mr B literally didn't let me stop long enough to take photos. We got all of this done in two very long days.
After all the hard-core landscaping was done, S.P. and I planted ten white sasanqua Camellia's along the fence and filled the smaller garden beds with some more gardenias. We also planted some lillies around the base of the gum tree.
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| Tiered garden beds replanted with gardenias and hydraneas. |
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| Weeping cherry transplanted from middle of lawn area. |
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| New level lawn. |
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| The row of sasanqua camellias against the fence. |
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| More lawn. |
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| Lillies at base of gum tree. |
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| New smaller garden beds along fence. |
I am looking forward to seeing the plants sprout as we head into spring time and look forward to being able to take some true "After" photos once things have grown a bit.
