Looks good Lorenzo. It's a fair old bit of work to lift that turf and prep the beds. Bit at a time eh? It's surprising how much you can get done if you get a couple of good days, and often September and October can be ideal. Don't dig down too deep to get the turf out - a couple of inches is enough, turn it over and lay on the manure. I ripped out a rotting fence [some still on the right of pic] put a new one in, and then lifted turf to create a bed. [I later took out everything behind the string line ] The manure is visible. That was roughly 5 years ago. those little pyracanthas to the left and right are now about 6 or 7 feet tall, and several feet wide,along with all the other planting. Three years later, and that bed is behind this screen, along with a four foot gravel path. The buddleias provide a good screen along that boundary fence. There's more planting in the far right corner now, after an extension to the house was built. There was nothing there when I moved in apart from gravel, slabs and grass - and the rotten fence. It's often hard to keep the vision, but the hard work pays off. I've done it, and you will too. You have a beautiful setting, and a lovely property, and I know you'll get there.
ps - if you can reduce the pix to about 1MB or less - they upload quicker. Most of mine are at least 6 or 7 too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
OMG, what a transformation. Are you sure you are not a professional. It looks like something from the TV, what vision. Blending soft and hard landscaping, now thats an art, so far mine are separate and removed from eachother, I seriously need to up my game. Shame I don't know anyone with your depth of skills and imagination locally. I find it hard to blend and contrast texture, colour, height and all the other things that go with it. I know all that matters is that you enjoy what you see and create, but I do actually want something that looks cool, though I do think that cottage style gardens are gorgeous, which is probably what mine looks most like, what with the mixture mature currently going on. I know that for the cool look, the design probably needs to repeat itself, not too much colour and some statement/architectural plants. But there are so many beautiful plants surely there must be a way of having a happy balance. I suppose one must first master the art of design in order to achieve this. Anyway your garden looks amazing, I'm sure you enjoy many an evening outside.😀
Oh, meant to ask how you reduce the size. I have a Samsung phone and can't figure out how to reduce size. I presume this is how everyone adds photos. I choose "files" and it takes me to gallery but no options to reduce mega bits, with are mostly 6 to 9mb.
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Bit at a time eh? It's surprising how much you can get done if you get a couple of good days, and often September and October can be ideal. Don't dig down too deep to get the turf out - a couple of inches is enough, turn it over and lay on the manure.
I ripped out a rotting fence [some still on the right of pic] put a new one in, and then lifted turf to create a bed. [I later took out everything behind the string line ] The manure is visible. That was roughly 5 years ago. those little pyracanthas to the left and right are now about 6 or 7 feet tall, and several feet wide,along with all the other planting.
Three years later, and that bed is behind this screen, along with a four foot gravel path. The buddleias provide a good screen along that boundary fence. There's more planting in the far right corner now, after an extension to the house was built. There was nothing there when I moved in apart from gravel, slabs and grass - and the rotten fence.
It's often hard to keep the vision, but the hard work pays off. I've done it, and you will too. You have a beautiful setting, and a lovely property, and I know you'll get there.
ps - if you can reduce the pix to about 1MB or less - they upload quicker. Most of mine are at least 6 or 7 too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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