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!

A year on... and the stones are gone!

Well, its taken me over a year, but I have finally removed all the stones, and black plastic, from the front courtyard.

Now we have a big area of dirt, otherwise known as a "blank canvas" to fill in with something.

Before and after photos are below:

 It doesn't look like much, but I am very glad to be rid of those stones!

Look at the leaves on the cabbage tree!

Oh dear, a big pile of stones to be rid of...

Now comes the fun part - designing and planting the new garden :)