After living here for a year, the main lawn area is finally starting to look the way I want it to. All the overgrown vegetation has been pruned away and the lawn now has neat, straight edges with a brick border. At the moment I am still busy levelling the lawn with sand, as it is very uneven and slopes slightly downhill to the patio.
I also built a step for the patio, so that visitors can get on and off easier, with a small flowerbed on each side. (On the left of the step is the King Protea (Protea cynaroides) which is South Africa's national flower; on the right is a trellis with a white Dipladenia creeper.)
The silly little patch of paving you can see on the "before" foto has been removed so that we can make the lawn wider - It is now 3 meters wide. The bricks from the paving was re-used to create the brick border around the lawn.
BEFORE: February 2013 - overgrown garden with a random paved strip.
DURING: April 2013 - paving removed and reused to straighten edge of lawn with brick border.
AFTER: April 2014 - almost done!
I also built a step for the patio, so that visitors can get on and off easier, with a small flowerbed on each side. (On the left of the step is the King Protea (Protea cynaroides) which is South Africa's national flower; on the right is a trellis with a white Dipladenia creeper.)
The silly little patch of paving you can see on the "before" foto has been removed so that we can make the lawn wider - It is now 3 meters wide. The bricks from the paving was re-used to create the brick border around the lawn.
