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The front of the house when I first viewed it....
December 2001
Front garden under going major transformation... 2004/2005
The driveway & verge re-sprayed and patterned, beds planted... July 2005
More photos in the Front Garden Photo Album.
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The back garden view short after I moved in in 2002... |
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...and as Steve and Chris saw the back garden in 2003....
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.....and just a year later with the fence painted and the Hibiscus growing up...
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...and by mid-2005. |
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Going clockwise, as it was, with a hole in the middle of the garden
........ which I then filled in..............whch is now a sunken garden.
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This side has undergone a lot of work. The original garden was resting
2 ft of earth against the paling fence. In the last 3 years the whole
plot length has been dug out exposing the fence, a retaining wall built
and the garden replanted.
The pergola has been extended to the fence, covered totally in shade
cloth and the pond filled in.
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I haven't got a good photo of just the spa as it was, but this shows
the spa and the hole!
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The spa had retaining walls built between the spa side and the pergola
and a garden planted. Speakers and fairy lights have been added to the
pergola roof.
Following changes in state laws in late 2005, it became necessary to surround an outside spa with impenetrable fencing just incase a child broke into the garden and drowned themselves. As this would have ruined the view across the (unfenced 11km long) lake! and following development of a leak and a failed pump, the decision was made in late 2005 to remove the spa. It is to replaced with an outdoor sitting area and an (unfenced) fish pond. |
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