Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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a year since i did this  time flies 
anyway, decided to take advantage of B&Q's BOGOF on plants offer so last week i used and abused the other halfs fiesta picking up some tree's/bamboo plants and compost.
i've always liked my privacy whilst in the garden and felt a bit uncomfortable with next door being able to see in my garden so clearly (crap fencing). i also love plants for some weird reason.
so i got to work on digging up some of my year old grass. the patch was 26'x3' or thereabouts. not very easy to do on your own when the ground is bone dry and it was touching 28c in the sun 
dug out and replaced with a mixture of miracle grow/ericacious/cheapo compost:
had 10 bags of soil/grass to take to the dump (again, missus wasn't happy at the state of her car when one of the bags split in the boot  )
plants to go in (golden bamboo, acer, acer, red robin, acer, acer, golden bamboo, in that order).
you can see what i mean about the neighbours here:
planted:
got some border so it didn't look so odd (replaced the log border at the bottom so it goes all the way around):
and our buddha's.
nothing much. but it was a lot of work just to plant some trees.
and finally, some panoramic fancy pics:
[Edited on 02-06-2012 by Ben G]
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John
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Looks good Ben, fancy coming and finishing mine? I've done most of the digging for you.
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Ben G
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cheers donner and john. i hate digging. i don't think i'd do it again  would rather pay someone else as it messed my back up for a week
sorted the post out so it's at the top of page rather than bottom.
pics of the garden when we first moved in:
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
sometimes you can get patches like that from builders waste buried in the garden
i shit you not, when i was digging down to plant the red robin, i found a massive sand bag bastards.
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Nath
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tidy 
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Colin
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Thats a big pair of pants you've got hung out mate, should have used 3 pegs on them.
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Fro
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Done really well Ben very impressive 
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whitter45
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Registered: 15th Nov 02
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looks really good - Also took advantage of the BOGOF offer
When from this
to this
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Ben G
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that looks really nice. did you cut the tree down next to the window or just move it?
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whitter45
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cut it down mate - was only a bush really
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taylorboosh
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
that looks really nice. did you cut the tree down next to the window or just move it?
tree? lol bet running about in the woods was shit when you were a kid
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Ben G
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tree's aren't 20 foot high when they're first planted
we have a crab apple tree i planted last may and it's only now 5 foot tall. takes years to get big.
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