I’ve come to the conclusion that if I wait until all my projects are totally finished before posting about them, you won’t see any of the landscaping or renovating I’m doing for the next 10 years… Nothing is ever finished! Especially as I’m doing everything in little stages, I’ve started on many areas that won’t be finished for a good while yet. So I’ve decided to start posting progress photos and the steps I’ve taken, and those of you who are kind enough to follow along with my little landscaping and renovating adventures will gradually see my house and garden come to life!

Today’s update comes under the landscaping umbrella, and is a simple little project in front of our side fence (the side that faces our actual street that our driveway and letterbox are on, not the road our front door faces). This little garden was not really planned very well and I wasn’t actually ready to go ahead with it, but Harley kept on eating all my plants that were in pots so I needed to get the garden bed sorted to transplant my two little bushes into.

When we moved in, the area had nothing at all there except for a big pile of wood-chips from a tree that was presumably cut down on the property. To the left of it were overgrown bushes and trees, and patchy grass.

Taken from the street corner of our front yard

Straight on view of the bare fence

I moved all the wood chips out of the way to another part of the garden I haven’t done anything with yet, dug some compost soil into the ground and built up the garden bed with more compost soil. I then transplanted my two small shrubs, added a Japanese Blossom Tree, another shrub my mum bought me, and a creeping jasmine (I’ll edit with the exact names!). The edging I bought from Bunnings 6m for $30, which I plan to use all over the garden. The rocks are from a relatives property past Cooma, which my parents collected (my mum generously let me steal some). Now I’m not totally sure what to plant around the lower level, I have an idea – a bright pink little mass of flowers I’ve seen around our suburb – but I never know the names of plants so it makes it difficult to find at the nursery, without looking at every single tag. My best friends mum is a gardener though so I may ask her for advice.

This isn't the most current photo, I have actually cleared area out on the left a lot more now

The two bushes at the back and one on the front right will grow to about 1m, the blossom tree will be gorgeous next year, and the jasmine should spread and cover the spaces nicely

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