In this video you will see the courtyard garden (design shown in how to design a courtyard garden video) being built.
This is the first stage of the garden construction.
The paving slabs will be laid in a couple of months time, so you will have to use your imagination a little bit! The rendered wall planters are built, so you will still get a good idea of the design layout.
The earth moves!
Since this part of Spain is subject to a lot of ground movement, the concrete is reinforced with metal to help prevent cracking. A plastic mesh is also worked into the wall rendering for the same reason.
The paving slabs will bring the ground level up approx 10cm (4″) higher, which will make the wall planters a look lower. The garden should be completed at Easter time. I will do a follow up video when the garden is finished. The paving, water feature and plants will make an enormous difference to the finished garden, I can’t wait to see it done!
Time to plan your own garden?
As now is a really good time to be planning your garden, the next 3 blog posts will be galleries of completed gardens. These will hopefully give you plenty of good ideas to put into your own garden (not to mention giving me some time off blog writing to devote to the first group of online garden design students)!
Your last chance to bag a bargain!
Talking of the very lovely people that have signed up to do the Beginner’s Garden Design Course – there are only 2 places left on the course. The price will double next year, so if you want to learn how to make your garden something special, now would be a very good time to sign up!
Once the course sells out it won’t be available for new enrollments until March 2010, so what are you waiting for?! Get your place on the course now – before the price goes up on Saturday 2nd January!
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Rachel, I’m floored by your incredible videos. And I want to move to Spain.
This year my plan is to get my gardens weeded (too much other work last summer), and hopefully plant vegetables in a small bed I have started.
Planning garden activities is my way of getting through the agony of what seems to be an endless winter (the days are getting longer, yippee!).
Thanks Stacey! I’m quite tempted to move out there too! ;o)
Now is definitely a good time to plan ahead with the garden. I’m all for growing vegetables – I really got into that last year and loved it. Going to try more fruit this year.
Good luck with yours.
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