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Landscape Gardening

These first two pics show what the garden used to look like. Pretty dire, I think you'll agree. These were taken around 1995.

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Then in the summer of 1999, Charlie and I decided we were gonna do something about it. Charlie was design consultant, and I helped as much as I could with a slipped disc :-)

First job was to clear out all the crap - as Richie would say, "Chuck out yer chimps" :-)

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Naturally, my lovely cats helped out where they could...

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Getting all the new fencing together...

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Laying the new patio - we had to bring these back from the hardware shop in 3 car-loads cos they weighed so much

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"The mother of all weeds"

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The "new look" garden is starting to take shape...

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..and finally, just add stepping stones, and 2 tons of mixed gravel :-)

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