Progress in the garden
On April 15 I wrote about our decision to rip up the lower piece of decking in our garden. I’m happy to say that much progress has been made since then even though I haven’t written about it.
For a while there I wasn’t really happy with my own plans for the space (yes, I should have thought a bit harder about it *before* ripping the deck up) but I found that if I fiddled around placing redgum sleepers and rocks in weird places it helped me to understand what I definitely didn’t want. This, of course, narrowed things down considerably, and a few weeks ago I finally settled on something I thought would work.
Since then we’ve invested three or four days of hard labour and now we’re nearly done … just need another metre of sand ‘cos I didn’t order enough and then we can lay the bricks. Here are some pics.
Me thinking about it
Putting those rocks there helped to finalise things a bit
Starting to move the 1.5m3 of road base. Note the new wheelbarrow - Jaffa.
We had to back up the narrow path, lifting Jaffa up the steps.
Max can’t take a decent photo - where’s my head gone Maxy?
Just like raking a bunker
Nearly done
What it looked like 3 weeks ago
We’ll lay the bricks so that they lead out to the rest of the garden. They won’t be hard up against the sleepers, we’ll leave a 6 inch gap and fill it with fine gravel. We’re planning to plant the borders heavily so that you can’t see the edges anyway.
More photos and write-up in a few weeks when it’s all done.