Lockdown project - garden

Another Covid lockdown meant another Covid lockdown project.

One of our projects this lockdown was to finally finish our main garden.

When we bought our house back in August 2007, the previous owners had made things look good for the short term but had planted far too many trees for the long term.

While we rented it out for the next seven years (while we were living in China) the trees grew out of control.  By March 2012 it was getting pretty wild.

When we moved in, in December 2014, it was a slow process to tame the jungle.  (Unfortunately we don't seem to have any photos.)

We started by clearing a small patch for the veggie garden.  By November 2015 we'd cleared the remaining bushes/weeds and removed two large olive trees.  

It was time for the largest tree removal, with over 20 palms getting the chop.

A busy life meant things got abandoned, and by June 2019 it was a dumping ground for dirt and greenery.

Not much had changed by October 2020.

So it was time for another tree removal session, with several more getting cut.

In April this year we got in a skip bin and removed four cubic metres of stones/shells/dirt.  By August the weeds were growing again.

In September, as soon as we moved from Covid Level 4 to Level 3 lockdown, we got two cubic metres of soil delivered.

We ordered click-and-collect plants, and yesterday we finished popping them in.  The near half is the flowery stuff, while the far half is the veggie stuff.

All we need is a blue sky sunny day to have the final photo shoot.  (And finish painting the house.)

UPDATE: A month later our garden is looking like this: