Bit more in the Front Garden

I don't know whether we make things more complicated or whether it's the lack of experience because after working on the garden our whole 5 days of Easter holidays we are still not done.. We still have the area around the garden taps to sort out.. and not to forget our ugly DIY letter box..

We thought we'll box the garden tap area and fill it up with some left over pebbles. With my other half's newly bought circular saw and the mitre saw we decided to make a border out of the Pine sleepers we had. We were very excited because we've never done anything like this before..

We put a little more effort into it than required because we were so into making it :)

We spent a Sunday making it and the next Saturday installing it around the garden tap area.. I painted the square grey so that it blends with rest of the colours in front of the house. Again we weed matted inside of the box before filling it up with pebbles.

I also came up with the idea of planting some succulents (which led to my obsession of succulents later..) in the square just to add some interest. Why succulents? The front garden faces North therefore gets a lot of sun, especially during summer, so I thought succulents should survive the heat along with the other drought tolerant plants. We bought a few succulents from the local nursery. I planted a succulent that's meant to grow up to 30-50cm between the water meters. Once the plant gets bigger hopefully it will hide the water meters.

The garden is 95% done! Just have the ugly letter box to deal with but with the amount of rain we are getting and with winter starting, don't think we will get to that just yet.

Having said that, I think we managed to do okay with setting up the garden.. I think we did well and I am very pleased with what we've managed to put together as our very first front garden :):):)