Creating Plant Beds!
As I’ve said in an earlier post, we wanted a bit of an unusual shape to the garden. It’s all so easy to have straight boarders but they just don’t add character to these straight new build gardens.
The idea from the plan was to create a wavy journey from the house to the bottom of the garden (among the birds and the bees). As guests progress down the garden, they will pass colours and scents all the year round!
Well, that’s the plan.
Sieving!
We have been sieving out the soil. Being a new build, a lot of the rubble from the construction site is buried in the soil. This does not make for good soil. It can also make the soil very alkaline.
So, we have a garden sieve and have been sieving the soil.
This is the result! A lot of the soil that was here before has been moved to else where in the garden, and under here is a deep trench of stones, rocks and other debris from the garden.
This is the first step towards making out garden lovely and perfect.
This are Our Ideas
Before starting a garden, a plan is required. You might simply use a sketch or some of those amazing online garden design websites, but you will need a plan.
We chose to sketch our plan out and began by measuring the garden.
Using accurate measurements we were able to plan out what we wanted for our garden.
Going Green
We were a bit disappointed to see our lovely new house with only a patch of mud outside! Our house was beautiful but the garden was mud!
And, as you can see, a huge plate right in the middle of it! That was the last thing we wanted! However, the fence was built…
We needed lawn, and quick!
