Something to show for hard work

We are now the proud owners of a planted front garden!  We are very happy with our work, but the aching backs and knees are testament to two days of really hard graft (and it might be a little to do with our age ;-o  )  We didn't finish until 18.40 this evening and it was too late to take a photo of the new front border; I'll do that tomorrow.

Please forgive me, beautiful hellebore, for moving you . . .

We are feeling very thrifty - we haven't had to buy any plants for the new borders; we have managed to use existing shrubs and grasses from other areas, and by careful division a little has actually gone a long way.  It's very satisfying.  We're now just keeping fingers crossed that all these transplanted plants don't have a massive sulk and die because they have been moved at the wrong time of year.  They have been fed and cossetted, watered in well but in the end, it's a chance we'll have to take.

On the move

As if creating a new border and a new bed was not enough to tackle this week, N had a brainwave that couldn't be ignored - he realised that the smallest of the garden sheds would actually fit very snugly into the area that is currently used for the rubbish bins, thus creating a very large courtyard area along the side path (once all the plants there had been dug up and relocated to the front garden - I hope you are following this!)  It really was a great idea and as we were already geared up for manual labour . . .   Needless to say the shed only just fitted in the designated space, it lost it's roof halfway through the moving process, and the capstone on the wall pillar had to be 'removed' in order to make things fit!  However, the shed is in it's new location and suddenly we have so much more space along the side path, it's like having a whole new outside room.  Hmm, so many possibilities . . . 

So we have used all the slate chippings, all the gravel (and had to scab a bit more from existing paths) and all the available plants.  The garden fork lost an argument with a buried breeze-block and we now need a new one *sigh*.  The car can drive itself to the tip and back without any help (I wish!).  The front garden looks wonderful and the path outside the kitchen is a work-in-progress.  

We're having a day off tomorrow.  It's been hard work today.  We are just a bit weary.