The last few weeks have seen us doing quite a bit of garden and surround work, nowhere near ready yet, we are getting there, it just takes a lot of time and effort.
We called in the contractor with the digger, he helped to level off the ground in the back and also to lay the topsoil down, we had 60m3 of topsoil delivered, not really feasible to do it with a wheelbarrow, he also dug the ditches around our plot, this is to lead away the excess rainwater that overflows from the neighbouring plot,quite necessary when the base is clay
Small digger rearranging the topsoil.
Levelling the topsoil, prior to planting with grass seed.
Outer edge of garden, small Cypress trees and some evergreen Cypress shrubs
We took delivery of 14½ tons of garden stones, these comprised of concrete bricks to make a retaining wall with, some flat slab stones to insert into the lawn so we can walk on it, some 10 x 20cm paving stones to make paths with and some decorative wall building stones to make flower beds with, this has to be started now, as later on, we will be having asphalt put down on the driveway.
Concrete steps to the main door, decorative concrete stones to make a small retaining wall.
The plants are Dwarf White Spruce and Dwarf Mountain Pine
Same view, different angle
Retaining wall, between house and driveway.
Retaining wall, the reason for this is, the house foundations are high in comparison to the driveway, (building regs) so we built a pathway from the small stones, then the retaining wall, also incorporated is a flower bed, this Tarja has filled with a Juniper type shrub, Evergreens are the best plants that we can put down, due to their hardiness and growth, it is difficult to find suitable plants when there is such an extreme climate.
Tarja, planting some more evergreens.
Detail of retaining wall pathway and plants.
Close up of Juniper shrub
Finish off by covering soil with crushed Spruce bark, this keeps the weeds at bay.
The finished article.
Blue Star Juniper shrub
Another Juniper shrub, these don't grow high, they do cover the ground quite well as they grow wide.
Pathway, still under construction.
Decorative stone flower bed.
No comments:
Post a Comment