The garden plans are taking shape and whilst Mr C and I were at work today the two garden fairies had been at work cutting out new borders around the patio area.

The plan to continue the wall around the patio has now been put back until the end of the project. My current thinking is that the existing wall will be replaced with a different style of bricks and the line will continue around the corner but stop at the wide part of the patio. There are currently  similar walls to the one that borders the patio in other parts of the garden; In front of the shed and bordering the upper and lower parts of the lawn. In due course the plan is to replace all of these bricks.

The next part of the project is sorting out the bin area and then we will move onto the collapsed shed!

The patio furniture has now been moved off the lawn and back it its former location. I have not placed all the tubs in their final locations yet, I haven’t quite decided what I want where. I don’t want all the bins cluttering up the garden so I need to clear a space for two of them in the garage. The small wall where the pots are currently situated will continue around the patio and a flower border will be dug on the opposite side of it.

I also need to replace the bench that unfortunately got broken whilst moving things around after the patio had been laid. The new bench will be placed underneath the window on the narrow part of the patio. I have a bench in mind, I just need to measure it to make sure that it isn’t too tall.

As I mentioned in my previous post, two garden fairies have set to work tidying up the borders for me. The garden is looking much better already

Although our tired tarmac driveway has needed replacing for a number of years we kept putting off replacing it until recently. A local builder was laying driveways in our area and we decided at long last that we would have ours replaced including the path up the side of our house. The path up the side of the house was less than ideal for getting the wheelie bins up and down. The slabs were too narrow and there were pebbles to either side of it causing the wheels to snag. As the pathway progressed we decided to extend it round the back of the house, enlarging our patio area slightly and replacing the the existing slabs.

Whilst the builders were laying the pavings at the back of the house they unearthed a drain access cover that we didn’t know was there!! It had been slabbed over by the previous occupants.

Now that the patio area is looking neat and tidy, two garden fairies have arrived and started  to give the garden a bit of TLC that has been long overdue…