It's time to start looking at what needs doing in the garden, the sooner we start the better chance we have of things getting settled in before the cold weather comes around. The yard is currently a blank canvas and we have a number of pot plants that we need to figure out where they are going to go or if we are going to plant any of them in the ground. My wife really wants a Japanese Maple, so that will go in the front yard after I've planted the hedge to give it some protection. I think that I'll plant some photinia's for the hedge out the front and I want to do a hedge along the back fence too, for that I'll probably plant viburnum, we had them at the last house and really liked them.
For outside the dining room window I want to plant a Chinese Star Jasmine on some trellis or something, so we're not just looking at the colorbond fence. There isn't a lot of space and it won't get heaps of light. I was thinking that I may be able to put a small pond with a fountain in as well as that should create some interest and movement out the window.
For the rest of the back yard, I think that we'll leave it as grass for now until we see how things a going and whether or not we feel like we need some more privacy.
At the last house I put in a watering system with pop-up sprinklers for the grass and drippers for all the other plants. This new house has recycled water available for use on the yard and hopefully I can set up an automatic watering system to take care of things for me. I'd love to get a robotic lawn mower but they are just too expensive and I don't really have that much lawn.
One thing I do need is a garden shed to put the mower and all the other garden tools in, I'm going to order one online soon. I need to figure out if I'm going to pave an area to put the shed on or use some gravel or a mat of some kind. I paved under my last shed and I remember it was harder than I thought it was going to be, but I got a pretty good result in the end and I didn't have issues with water getting in so I may just have to do that again. There isn't room to get a concrete truck anywhere near it so I'm not going to try and pour slab or mix barrow after barrow of concrete myself.
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I'll write a list for this, I'm sure of it.
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