When we bought the house, the garden was (and still is) a completely blank canvas. Aside from a courtyard at the front, the garden is bare. A large area has softfall in it, and a sandpit, but no garden beds or plants. The plan is for a French Provincial, cottage style garden in white. I plan to put a fragrant garden, with gardenias, jasmine, magnolias, roses and anything else with white flowers. Sadly...I get very excited by this!
This is the side of the house. We'll put garden beds either side of the gate and a border of bricks using the pile of bricks left by the previous owners. We set up a stringline, Josh sprayed the line and we dug up the trench for the border...by hand. Trying to save money sucks. I'm pretty sure we could have hired a dingo for about $300 and done the whole backyard.
It took us four hours to do this and every muscle in my body is aching. But we're happy with it. Next we'll dig up the other side, and then, with trial and error, work out how to mortar in a brick border. Stay tuned.
