New Patio!

Before Photo

Our garden is just so hot and there is little shade so we decided to put in a small patio under a large tree that we have. This space doesn't really have any purpose so it will be a little shady escape from the sun. I absolutely love it, the problem is the birds do too and we now have a poopy patio 😳 Lee did a fantastic job on this and I planted up the borders. Hopefully it will be nice and full when things start to grow. There are a lot of ferns in there but they are just coming to life. I've planted some hyacinths, little anemones (100 bulbs to be precise) sowed some seeds and put some ground cover in too. Lee bought some solar lights that flicker like candles and they really do. The whole thing looks like a teleport on Skyrim and it really does transport you to a tranquil place. This is going to be lush .. I hope.

Hooch helping again

The circle appears

Hey Presto!

Edging almost in

New path, lights and plants

Azaleas transplanted too

The Patio

And they say 'the camera never lies' ...

This picture looks lovely

This has given me such a headache. Not only is the garden sloping upwards to the left but it is not square and the angles are just weird. Lee comes along with some string and hey presto - sorted. The patio will have a step up to the left so that we can level it out. But for now most of the slabs are down until the grass dies off. We've used some of the slabs from the vegetable garden as this is going to be lawned over but first I need to save all the plants in there including a little Camellia.

I love the picture on the left - it really doesn't look like that at all! ... yet

I'm not much help to Lee when it comes to the heavy stuff so instead he has given me the job of cleaning the slabs off. I really like the moss effect.

Luna Helping

Slabs to be cut to fit

Reality

This shows the slope a bit more