My Garden Build - Phase 1 - Day 4 - LJN Blog Posts

Day 4 - Final Day of Phase 1:For me this was the most exciting day as the hedges were being planted. My landscaper, Chris, had managed to source some excellent beech whips from David Ross's nursery - great root structure & a really good height. I was very pleased with them.Once the left & right-hand boundaries had been planted up, the site was cleared of remaining rubbish, the planting trench for the rear boundary dug and the post & wire fence installed. We're fortunate enough to have a farm track behind the rear boundary, which had made access very easy.The final stretch of hedge was then planted, a generous mulch applied all round and the plants given a good watering-in. It had been a cool and fairly wet day - perfect for hedge planting!The landscapers did a final tidy-up of the site and were off. I was sorry to see them go; we'd had a brilliant time, they were such a pleasure to have on site and they had made the whole thing as stress-free as these things can be. They also did a top quality job.Pictures of Day 4 below - apologies for formatting, just don't seem to be able to get pics to line up!Now that Phase 1 is complete and I can see exactly what I am working with, I have changed a few ideas. For instance... shock horror!!.... I have decided not to have a greenhouse after all. It will spoil the design of the garden and I don't actually need one in order to be able to grow some food.I am now enjoying looking at materials for the hard landscaping and features for Phase 2, which we hope to get going around June. Who knows, I could be planting it all up this Autumn - how exciting!!

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