When we bought the house last May, the garden had 6ft weeds, dead trees and brambles all over it, as the previous owners hadn't done anything for about 7year. It had been strimmed by the estate agents for viewings.
All of What is in that picture, we cut down last year, and it looked like this in September:
We put the kids swing in the top right corner next to the hedges, and added wood bark underneath, it looked really nice. It was sprayed with cat repellant to keep them away, shame all the local cats didn't realise they wern't meant to like the spray and decided it was their new toilet!!! (yea totally gross!) So, it has all been taken up and bagged for bin. We were going to put decking squares under it but didn't have a framework to fix them to. Son in the end we went for fake grass. Took ages to do.
I also sat and scraped loads of the moss from the rock and stone walls! Then decided to google how to get rid of it and apart from buying expensive stuff the top answer was whit vinegar in a spray bottle and they use a wallpaper scraper to remove. This I will be trying. I have lots of rocks/stones as part of retainers as the garden is on a downhill slope to the house. I want them to look nice.
There is still LOTS to do in it, including digging out soil from the slop nearest the house in order to lay decking, leveling other parts to add grass seed to and part of it is going as patio. It wont be finished this year I don't think, although it would be nice.
I certainly know I have done stuff as both my back and my knee are causing me pain!
