In my case, it has turned months of rough sketches, pages of notes, hours of flicking through books to get inspiration and many moments lying awake at three o'clock in ther morning rethinking all those plans, into an actual possibility.
We are a week away from spring here in Perth, so my priority is getting my food garden started. Some would find that a little bit odd. When most people move into a new house, they would generally fix up the rest of the garden, and a patch for edibles would be something tacked on at the end.
But I'm doing something a little bit different. My food garden is going in my front yard. There are two reasons for this. 1. My front yard is north facing. 2. I have a pair of delightful, vegetable-loving beagles who could munch and dig their way through a vegetable patch in an afternoon if they found the inclination to do so. (I once lost an entire crop of cherry tomatoes and jalapeños to these two innocent-looking beasts).
So, we drew up a plan that we thought would look attractive, even when it is scrappy vegetable season.
Using a laser beam, he measured the slope of our block to calculate the amount of earthworks and retaining we'd need to do. Then I'm not sure if he just did this for my benefit, he pegged it out with a string line and spray painted the ground to give me an idea of what it is all going to look like.
So it's all happening in our front yard. The neighbour walked past us yesterday evening as we walked around our imaginary string-lined garden beds with a cup of tea and asked us if we were 'surveying the estate'!
The demolition team moves in tomorrow and our limestone and pavers arrive the following day.
I might yet get some veges in for spring!
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