More Gardening

Here are a few more shots recording the progress of my front garden make over the other week. I'm sure that Alan Titchmarsh and the Groundforce crew would have been impressed!!

Unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to take a quick shot before the work commenced so the first photo is actually after a foot or so of soil, some shrubs and weeds had already been cleared.

Step 1 - Ground cleared, leveled and time to come up with some design ideas!


Step 2 - Anti-weed membrane put down and leftover slabs from the back garden laid to


Step 3 - Rest of soil covered in anti-weed membrane (carefully cut round shrubs etc), then a layer of low maintenance bark laid.


Step 4 - Focal point finished off with a Cordyline (picked up from a local garden centre) and some other new shrubs planted around the edge of the garden (which can't be seen in the photo!).

Before / After - Part 3

Currently having a few weeks off work and spent a portion of last week working on the front garden to create a more low maintenance area.

This involved clearing a skip worth of top soil (dumped on the front when I did the back garden), removing all the unwanted plants / bushes then doing a bit of landscaping.

Here's how it turned out.

Before / After - Part 2

Following on from this post (Before / After) I've spent a bit more time putting together photos of the house that I've had kicking around for over a year.

Bedroom 1


Lounge


Lounge

Before / After

This weekend saw me spending some time clearing out the spare room to make way for my new lodger who is moving in next week.

Faced with a wardrobe crammed with random stuff that I'd shoved in there I started sorting it in to piles of rubbish, things that needed a new home and possible items to sell on eBay.

Whilst doing this I started thinking off all the photos that I took in the house when I was renovating it and how I'd never actually done anything with them let alone even look at them.

With all the countless DIY and property shows loving the before and after shots I thought why not post a few on here for all to see.

Bedroom 2