Like all terraces mine has a small front garden which to make life easier for the previous occupants had been gravelled over. This meant when I moved it it looked nice and tidy but I soon came to realise that the weeds just saw it as a challenge - the rosebush was a haven for ukky yukky insects and there were much nicer things that I could do with the front.
Christmas 2006 I had made the foolish error of putting the ex christmas tree onto the gravel where it dropped every single needle onto the gravel.
So I found a house on a property website and 'borrowed' an idea to turn the front garden into circle with plants around the edges, this would involve scraping up all the gravel, raising the cement slabs and building a brick edged circle. With the front being south facing the plants which went in had to be able to cope with scorching heat as well as poor drainage and occasional drunkards, not to mention the cats. And slugs.
See below for a picture of the work in progress - and the japanese cherry I chose for the shady corner.
And this is the finished article, after about a week, I'll post another picture of it soon to show how it looks now.
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