Metal infills for my front fence

The powder coated aluminium infills for my front brick fence got installed just before Christmas 2010.

The RHS of the driveway garden is well established. The LHS is still waiting...have retaining walls and topsoil delivery waiting.

Dad-built retaining wall. We'll see...

Fencing underway

Yesterday: 

Today: From this angle you can see the 9 inch thickness.

The brick colour (Nelson Cove) is a different batch to the ones for the house. They look lighter and have some grey streaks instead of orange ones. I'd have preferred them to match more closely but once the garden is established it won't be too noticeable.

The bullnose brick layback is done. Finally. Darn things were more expensive than I thought.

Front Fence Footings

More front fence footing images

 

Footings RHS

Footings LHS, and a very dirty new pavement

 Looks like she's under construction again, what's that pile doing there?

Why it's more bricks

With all the rain, the driveway looks so dirty, but I love my roof

That pile of sand looks the wrong colour!

One of our resident Indian Miners prancing about like it owns the place

They've made good use of the new yellow fence. 

Fences! Again!

My camera problems are fixed! Pictures ahoy!

 

My new side fence

  

Front fence footing holes

 

Even more front fence footing holes 

Metal bars on the ground floor windows (not on front facade). 

I hate them but they're not my choice.

A few of my pot plants

A few more

The rest of the pics are plant mugshots. We're garden crazy here!

My precious hydrangea

My precious grevillea 'Moonlight'. It's covered in ants and spiders.

A flowering cactus I don't know what it's called. The white flower is my new gardenia.

Can't wait for this blue agapanthus to flower

Magenta Lilly Pilly

Kangaroo Paw

Blue Pacific - can't wait for it to flower, maybe next year

2 Pomegranite trees and a variegated pink thing

Grow Tuckeroo, Grow!!

One of my waratahs

Bonnie prince charlie grevillea (I think)

Candle Banksia

You can never have too many grevilleas

Jasmine vine - soon

Avocado plant that's seen better days

A pink bottlebrush that's not doing well 

All part of the blue obsession. I'm like a bower bird!

No idea what it's called botanically, but I've named it Princess Fiona (Shrek) 

 As for the garden I know it's a little premature to be planting since I haven't tilled it or mixed in gypsum or got garden beds to offset the fact that all my topsoil is gone and we're left with medium clay. But we can't wait!

Fences, and Koi man

Today our side fence is getting installed. Colorbond.
Next week we're getting a front fence. Brick.

I'm looking forward to coming home today, to not see my neighbour anymore. He's a wiry leathery grumbler who's so far been harmless but I'll be happier when he and I are separated by a thin layer of steel.

It's a shame he doesn't like us; he also doesn't like any of the tradies that come by. Or any human younger than him. I wish things were different, because he has the most gentle friendly dog, the prettiest fattest koi in a bubbling pool and several gorgeous birds in a huge aviary. I don't like his bees though.

Still no images. Need to buy a new camera.

Mowing the lawn

Dad and I went to mow the nature strip today. It's been 6 months since we last did it. My god it took 2 hours for a piece of turf 1m x 10 m. It wasn't even that high!

Something like 6 bags of grass clippings and weeds. I couldn't reach the weeds in the yard which were the aim of the gardening session, since Huxl3y have put up the fence last friday 11th Dec 09.

There's now also a 1m high pile of large gravel stones on the LHS where the old driveway used to be.