Back courtyard...

Richard and I built a sandpit in our back yard yesterday, for Amelia's 4th birthday... Made from recycled sleepers (appropriate!), it didn't take too much time to build although we were both sore afterwards!

Before and after shots below... Need to get some ferns or something to hide the water heater one day...

Outside front garden is done as well...

Been a busy month,  I also completed the outside front garden - planted with mainly native tubes, and a couple of more mature plants. The agapanthas were already there, grew up over the last year or so, and this is the first year they have flowered!

Before and after - front yard

Stage 1 - front courtyard - complete !

Had a busy weekend - planted some native plants in the front yard, then several loads of free mulch... transformed ! Progression below :-)

Grass!

The grass is growing... still a bit patchy yet...

More substantial progress

There was movement in the front yard
For the word had got around
Gin had gone mad and ordered soil....

Nothing like a big pile of soil on the footpath outside to make a person get organised....
6 hours of digging, and our front yard went from this:

Add in a bit of link edge (brilliant stuff!), a huge pile of soil, and some blood sweat and toil:

Letting it settle for a few days, then we plant some grass... woo hoo :)

Small Steps

First of the garden re-do's, I tackled the smallest patch today, our little entrance garden. Transformed from a pile of dirt and leaves to a rockery. I planted it with Australian natives, covered with mulch, and voila!