And another Sunday has rolled around.
And as has become the norm our first job of the day was to collect our weekly grocery shop. We have moved our collection day to a Sunday as it makes us get up and about a little earlier than we would do so that we get to make the most of the day.
After the shopping was put away and a coffee had been drunk we headed out into the garden to tidy up our courtyard garden. We had debated laying some artificial grass in this garden as well as a section of our back garden but the cost was just way too much for us. So we have decided to take a more cost effective approach and simply tidy each area and make them as low maintenance as possible.
A few weeks back we had removed a number of large plants and conifer trees from our courtyard garden which had left some big holes and some exposed roots. So todays job was to level out the garden and simply get rid of those pesky roots...easier said than done! The roots were extremely well established and due to the nature of the ground had grown sideways rather than downwards and proved rather tricky to get out.
This meant about four hours work, a pick-axe and numerous coffees in order to get out as much as we could to leave us with a level(ish) garden. We also pulled out a couple of smaller plants that had seen better days as well as cleared out the open wall that goes around the garden and was filled with numerous rockery type plants that had all seen way better days. The garden now looks much neater and as level as I think we're ever going to get it.
We now need to lay some heavy duty weed membrane and order some gravel to lay over it to finish the area off. We then need to figure out how to add some colour and some plants that won't really need any looking after. Neither of us are gardeners, we'd just like a nice garden to sit out in and enjoy. One idea is to get some pots and garden ornaments to enhance the two spaces that we have, so this is going to be a work-in-progress.
And there was Sunday.
See you tomorrow.
xx
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