Post Your Garden!

Noakesy85 · 10 Jun 2016 at 09:09

koolpc said:
Blimey, you did all that but you are only renting?

Skillmister said:
Renting out

Sorry I should have been clearer, It was my house that I was living in at the time.

It took a few years of badgering the wife to let me sort the garden out because as you can see from the pictures it was all shingle with a raised flower bed in the middle (previous owner was elderly and needed something easy to maintain) and not very child friendly.

It took me around 6 months of hard labour (Shovel and a wheelbarrow + A LOT of elbow grease) as the only entrance to the garden was via a gate between the house and the detached garage.

Shortly after completion I found out I was being sent to Cyprus for 3 years so instead of getting to enjoy my new garden, I rented my house out and my tenants get to enjoy it instead :mad:

koolpc · 10 Jun 2016 at 09:22

Noakesy85 said:
Sorry I should have been clearer, It was my house that I was living in at the time.

It took a few years of badgering the wife to let me sort the garden out because as you can see from the pictures it was all shingle with a raised flower bed in the middle (previous owner was elderly and needed something easy to maintain) and not very child friendly.

It took me around 6 months of hard labour (Shovel and a wheelbarrow + A LOT of elbow grease) as the only entrance to the garden was via a gate between the house and the detached garage.

Shortly after completion I found out I was being sent to Cyprus for 3 years so instead of getting to enjoy my new garden, I rented my house out and my tenants get to enjoy it instead

Oh, ok

Camalot · 14 Jun 2016 at 16:56

Making progress in the back garden, still plenty to do!

koolpc · 14 Jun 2016 at 17:11

Is that the old patio? ^^^^^

Camalot · 14 Jun 2016 at 17:58

Patio is new.

koolpc · 14 Jun 2016 at 18:13

Camalot said:
Patio is new.

Oh, right, sorry.

Noakesy85 · 14 Jun 2016 at 18:31

its amazing how different a garden looks once the grass has been mowed!!

Camalot · 14 Jun 2016 at 18:35

Noakesy85 said:
its amazing how different a garden looks once the grass has been mowed!!

The grass was brown and dead after the first mow! took a lot of ever green to bring it back to the pic above lol

Noakesy85 · 14 Jun 2016 at 19:01

My inlaws had a similar issue when they bought their holiday home a few years. Their Grass was almost waist height with ant hills all over the place. It took months of cutting and boiling water to get the garden looking decent again.

bloodiedathame · 15 Jun 2016 at 10:07

Progress from 2 years ago to 2 weeks ago.

koolpc · 15 Jun 2016 at 10:17

^^^^^^^^^^^^

Pic a bit big!

bloodiedathame · 15 Jun 2016 at 10:21

koolpc said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Pic a bit big!

Trying to find the max pic size but it's not in the rules. 1280 wide isn't it?

Etheco · 15 Jun 2016 at 10:23

bloodiedathame said:
Trying to find the max pic size but it's not in the rules. 1280 wide isn't it?

With imgur just add h just before the .jpg i.imgur.com/JbE3GKnh.jpg

This will give you a nice size for all to enjoy

bloodiedathame · 15 Jun 2016 at 10:53

Etheco said:
With imgur just add h just before the .jpg i.imgur.com/JbE3GKnh.jpg

This will give you a nice size for all to enjoy

Aha! Nice one, thought it was 'L' hence the link going down. Can never find this information when I need it.

Noakesy85 · 19 Jun 2016 at 13:42

^^^^^^
Massive transformation, looks like its been a proper labour of love

bulletv1 · 1 Jul 2016 at 10:25

Been renovating my whole house and garden for the past year and 5 months.

Started like this

Then this

I then hired a digger and did this

And as of last night

koolpc · 1 Jul 2016 at 10:42

^^^^^^^^^^

Lot of hard work there. Taking shape by the look of it. Well done

Etheco · 1 Jul 2016 at 10:50

Looking nice dude, It's always nice seeing's peoples progress.

jbh110tdi · 1 Jul 2016 at 12:38

looking good. is that you're garage at the end or the next door neighbors?

bulletv1 · 1 Jul 2016 at 14:15

Thanks

That's the end of the neighbours. Horrible thing, concrete prefab with asbestos roof. Going to build a nice big wood store in front of it to block it out.