Today we continued our garden project by having a look at some garden design books. This one by John Brookes is excellent and gives you loads of tips for making a design.
We took the advice in the book and divided our garden up into a grid using dimensions of the most prominent feature of the house; the children chose the distance across the large windows, I choose the width of the patio. We drew on a grid centred on our feature. Next we used the grid to divide up the areas into lawn and planting. The children added a bike track to their designs.
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| By R |
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| By L |
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| By Mum |
Later in the afternoon we went to the DIY store and garden centre to get some inspiration.
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| Too old for trolleys really but who can resist this car |
We bought some flowers to replace our faded ones and the children planted them up. We also got a bird table which we hope to jazz up a bit with paints.
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| Planter by R and L |
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| Assembling the bird table |
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