So back in early May Paul made the small brick paved area outside my garden studio. That meant that at the side beneath the studio window there was still an old paved piece of path in need of replacing.
Here you can see a piece of the old paving has the crazy paved step on one corner, so that needed to be broken off without damaging the step.
View from the other end.
The finish of the brick path.
from the other end.
Viewed from a distance showing both sides plus the brick paved front.
A little closer showing both sides to walk along.
The troughs are looking good in their new setting and having been replanted . One plant in the trough on the right is loving it too much and has since been removed to a space were it can spread as much as it likes.
A small job was added because we removed a , what was a beautiful, acer by the woodland pond.
It had lived in a large pot for many years slowly growing bigger and when we did the waterfall with stream, this seemed the ideal place for it to continue to grow even bigger , plus it made a good job of hiding the greenhouse behind.
But alas three years on, onside had died over the really cold spell in the winter and the other side was struggling. The dead half was cut off and it was left to see if it would recover, however we were hit with a very cold late spell in spring followed by an incredible hot spell and it was not looking good.
So we decided to remove it into a pot and place it in a more sheltered place to the side to hopefully give it a chance to recover. But this then left a big space, even after we planted a different plant in its place, leaving a large expanse of the greenhouse still visible !
We putted repotted acer beside the raised bed where it used to live but it still looked, well awful !
We had originally left this place open as a short cut between the back gate and greenhouse and the circle which had a nice covered seat on. But Paul in his usual untidy way had filled the space with bits and pieces , so it couldn't really be used. I decided we'd put another piece of trellis stained black to cover most of the greenhouse but still leave a small opening.
So there is now a long piece of trellis stained black filling most of the space and blending in with the existing trellis.
So now the Acer is standing in front of the new section along with a large Hosta.
So now, although it doesn't quite make up for the lovely Acer that was there, it does look a lot better than just being left with a clear view of half the greenhouse.
So just a couple of more small jobs to do.
