The Garden - Jan 2015

January 2015

The garden is growing nicely.  Great watching everything grow and thicken up.

The last 2 things to do are to repair the cross-over and then get the front fence rendered.

Landscaping Over 12 months on....

It is great to finally see plants in the ground and no longer the bare dirt.  Time to watch the plants grow.

January/February 2014
We had all the landscaping completed around the pool area, the Alfresco paved and the front landscaped, just didn't do any planting at that time. Landscaper - Dream Making Landscapes

Before the Path

After the Path

Paving of the Alfresco Area in the Travertine

Before and After Photos

 Front Yard (no plants yet)

Side gate on Right hand side of house 

Painting the "Metres" of fencing...............

 The Planting takes shape......Sept 2014

3 Silver Princess gums, wild iris, dwarf red kangaroo paw

Woolley bush planted along fence line

3 Silver Princess gums in the foreground with a mass planting
of wild iris around their base

Landscaping - Part 2 - Pathways

We had our paths started today - in Melbourne torrential rain, wind and top temp of 16.8oC on 5 Dec!

Anyway, great news for us, the landscaper couldn't do another job because of the rain, so came to us today.  He fits us in between his big jobs.

So today the plan was to tackle the paths around the side of the house and out the back.  We are going for the Recycled Old Timber Railway sleepers embedded in the paths in some sections.  Also using the sleepers to make a couple of vege patches to one side of the garden.  

The paths are Tynong Toppings which have a grey appearance (funny that really!!)  We must love grey!

In the photos below, the paths aren't finished, but gives an idea of where we are heading.  The toppings need to be compacted and more added on top.  It is all very wet today, so needs to dry out a bit also.

Laying the sleepers before the toppings added

Toppings now added.  Needs to be compacted, more toppings added and then the sleepers cleaned up and brought to life.

This is down the RHS of the property (the blind side).  As you can see down from the pool area though, we have planned the path with a narrow garden bed which we will plant a hedge.

 

This is on the opposite side of the house.  These are the 2 sleeper vege patches.  Our clothesline will be going on between the garden bed on the left and the garage close to the wall, not mounting it on the wall though.  We had the aggregate driveway come through to the back of the garage along the fenceline.