Saturday, January 2, 2016

2nd January 2016

Happy New Year!

So the last few days has been spent slaving away in the front yard and we are now feeling sorry for ourselves as we are burn't to a crisp and very sore. It has all been worth it though. We are looking forward to finishing off the front yard so we can get started out the back. So much to do still! If only we had some money trees to plant :)

We finally finished bagging and painting our retaining wall. It's not perfect, but its the first time we have built a wall together. We decided to paint it the same colour as the front facade which is Colorbond Dune.

We created a garden bed on the left side of the driveway (looking at the house from the road). So far it has Murraya in it. We still need to add some Cuphea White and Mondo Grass. We may have to add more to it as it's a wider garden bed than the opposite side of the driveway.

We also created a garden bed on the right side of the driveway along the retaining wall (neighbours boundary). It also has Murraya in it for the time being. We still need to add some Cuphea White and Mondo Grass too. We only have one more garden bed to create, which will be along the front boundary. It will eventually have Cuphea White and Mondo Grass.

Something else we added was another tree to the nature strip on the right side of the driveway, so we now have 3 x Pyrus Calleryana 'Capital' on the nature strip.

We have tried to stick with a 'white flower' theme. We might add some more colour down the track.

Some pics below.