Side Garden Makeover

The start of a garden for little miss grand daughter, who from the age of six months spent a lot of time and had regular sleep overs at Nan's and Pops house. Her love for the out doors and for Nan and Pops garden started when she was just a toddler. So with this in mind I started a garden where little miss could go exploring, hiding, playing, digging, getting dirty and just having lots of fun.

At the side of the house there was a garden of sorts, two large orchids planted into the ground but very little else. Before we could make a start on the garden bed itself we had a couple of other projects that had to be completed first.

The side garden bed had very little to offer apart from two orchids, there was a pergola that was quite was in good condition. But there was no path, no garden edging and the side fence was falling down and needed to be replace before we could make a start on the garden.

So the fence was replaced (we paid someone to have this done), then we laid a gravel path and next we made a start on putting in a garden. We used concrete sleepers that were made by our local garden supply, once in they will never need to be replaced. They won't rot, warp, they will with stand the elements and the grand children too. The finished projects made quite a difference to the side of the house, the garden bed was now ready for some plants to go in.

Then came the idea for my well, I had bought the cherub some months earlier and it had been sitting in the shed waiting for the fence and the garden bed to be done. I think that the cherub looks quite good inside the well. I am very pleased with the end result, with red gum chips as a mulch to finish it off.