Garden....

Yay!!!! Finally we have made a big start on the front......we are now in the possession of a garden!!......as you know Tony made up the external edges for the garden beds, so yesterday we ordered in some soil and went shopping for the plants for the garage bed.
For my birthday last year Adrian and Ashleigh gave me a voucher from Chris and Marie's, thought i might have trouble spending it there as they really don't have a great variety of plants just lots of what they do have...but, no, I had no trouble at all, in fact i had to add some (lots) of $$ to it.
Ended up buying 4 standard white Iceberg roses, 4 Hidecote lavendar bushes and a Pittostrum, went for the slightly bigger plants, hence the greater expence.

Back home we then had to put the soil into the beds after working out our spaces...laid some pipe in preparation for a watering system, then plant the 'plants'...doesn't sound much but it did take us a few hours...okay. so we stopped to talk to some neighbours for awhile :)
The only thing else we need to do (besides hook up the watering system) is to get some topping for the beds, but that won't be done unitl all the beds have been finished.

The study garden now has soil in it but it won't get its tennants until i get to my mums to collect my plants from her...(she has been looking after my plants for almost 18 months  now...thaks mum), hopefully we can get there in the new year.  This bed will have Gardenias in it.

The third garden bed is yet to be started but I think that that will be remedied today as Tony is on his way to pick up the flanged star picketts for the bed.  This bed...well i'm not too sure what is going in here...maybe some more roses and lavanders to match the other side.