Sprinklering

Not sure that “sprinklering” is a word but let’s hope that there isn’t a hosepipe ban!
Plants are being positioned and going in, at last.

Grass!

What a difference a lawn makes.

Trees

Trees!

Today we have made tangible progress on the garden design itself, not just remedial work.
The path along the back fence is taking shape and the water feature is now well under way.

Underway at last!

As you can see from the photo below, we discovered some drainage problems when we started to dig out the rill. So, once more, the garden was put on hold whilst we discussed how to remedy this. Crest Nicholson didn’t want to know, even though it was their equipment that had compacted the soil so much as to make it like concrete and they had just covered it over with topsoil, no surprise there. 

So, having waited for the water to evaporate somewhat, R&B Groundworks (Rob and Bernadette our garden creators) came up with a cunning drainage solution of a perforated pipe sunk into a ditch to help the water run off the concrete like surface and soak away.

This has worked brilliantly. So we are now ready to progress with the garden proper. Fingers crossed that the weather holds.