Sunday, September 18, 2011

Transforming our 'Garden' #1



















Before and after: front garden.

Since our move, we have been busy transforming what the house's previous owner thought was a nice garden. His idea of gardening was to cover everything in pavers and pebbles. He also enjoyed planting succulents and Japanese box, what a contradiction!

So far we have blitzed the front yard, as it is much smaller than the backyard. We had to start by lifting pavers and moving pebbles.








Before and after: front garden.

We had to demolish a wonky mailbox that had been run over and rebuilt twice. We replaced it. The top garden bed is now pebble and paver free and mulched. We've planted a Nandina hedge along the front and have continued the box hedge around the retaining wall. The living mulch is spreading nicely and hiding the creative retaining walls :0

This will be the first in a LONG series of posts (you should see the backyard!)

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