So I thought i'd post another little update up the garden. A LOT of work has gone into this through February and March and will hopefully now look stunning all through the summer months, especially as the plants start to grow and mature.
The picture below was about 2 weeks ago, just the left hand side and back to finish.
This is where I got a bit sidetracked.....There was always 2 bricks showing through the grass and as I was working I thought i'd dig them out ready to re-turf, well this then turned into a full blown job all by itself, there was a path of bricks and rubble the full length of my garden! I always wondered why there was a bit of a hump in the lawn and it never really grew as well as the rest of the grass, i just put it down to being the main walkway to the sheds. How wrong could I be!
64 car fulls of rubble later (slight exaggeration) and re-turfing began...
And this is where i'm at. The back of the bark still needs finishing. Those pots aren't going to stay there, that was another thing I got side tracked doing, getting my pots ready for the summer The border just to the right of the grass is slowly getting plants put in, but this is my walk way at the moment to save walking on the new turf and so can't finish the border for a while, although I do have a LOT of plants ready to go in the garden. A good friend of mine just closed down his garden centre and so have stocked up. Hellebores £1 each
It's looking great Chris. You've been working far too hard! I'm really looking forward to seeing it in a few months when the plants are growing. The new turf looks really healthy and well - you've made a lovely job of that
Are you going to continue some path alongside the grass so that you don't have to walk on it to access the rear of the garden? Just thinking that it might be an idea when the ground's wet - late winter/early spring - and you want to do a bit of planting or tidying etc. My grass is saturated just now and when I put a new area of grass in the back garden there's a path going round it for exactly that purpose, as I wouldn't be able to access the shed or new beds otherwise.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairygirl - I did consider a path but i'm a big lover of my lawn through the summer and have chosen the bigger lawn over a path. The dog does his best to destroy it anyway so i'm going to try and get by without a path. I just make an effort to walk up and down different parts of the grass rather than wear out a line.
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Gosh! a time line. Hope you do finish on time. look forward to further up dates
( hi matty2)
that looks fantastic, well done
So I thought i'd post another little update up the garden. A LOT of work has gone into this through February and March and will hopefully now look stunning all through the summer months, especially as the plants start to grow and mature.
The picture below was about 2 weeks ago, just the left hand side and back to finish.
This is where I got a bit sidetracked.....There was always 2 bricks showing through the grass and as I was working I thought i'd dig them out ready to re-turf, well this then turned into a full blown job all by itself, there was a path of bricks and rubble the full length of my garden! I always wondered why there was a bit of a hump in the lawn and it never really grew as well as the rest of the grass, i just put it down to being the main walkway to the sheds. How wrong could I be!
64 car fulls of rubble later (slight exaggeration) and re-turfing began...
And this is where i'm at. The back of the bark still needs finishing. Those pots aren't going to stay there, that was another thing I got side tracked doing, getting my pots ready for the summer
The border just to the right of the grass is slowly getting plants put in, but this is my walk way at the moment to save walking on the new turf and so can't finish the border for a while, although I do have a LOT of plants ready to go in the garden. A good friend of mine just closed down his garden centre and so have stocked up. Hellebores £1 each 
It's looking great Chris. You've been working far too hard! I'm really looking forward to seeing it in a few months when the plants are growing. The new turf looks really healthy and well - you've made a lovely job of that
Are you going to continue some path alongside the grass so that you don't have to walk on it to access the rear of the garden? Just thinking that it might be an idea when the ground's wet - late winter/early spring - and you want to do a bit of planting or tidying etc. My grass is saturated just now and when I put a new area of grass in the back garden there's a path going round it for exactly that purpose, as I wouldn't be able to access the shed or new beds otherwise.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Edd thank you, made me
Fairygirl - I did consider a path but i'm a big lover of my lawn through the summer and have chosen the bigger lawn over a path. The dog does his best to destroy it anyway so i'm going to try and get by without a path. I just make an effort to walk up and down different parts of the grass rather than wear out a line.
Such an interesting project and great to see it developing. Did you find any buried treasure when you dug up the surprize pathway Chris?
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It's looking great Chris. What lovely pix with the sun glinting through the trees. You should put them on the Garden Gallery thread too
What other plants have you got in there?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...