Summer living

Paving work starts

Morning coffee

Good morning! 

Mrs B is just after having her first morning coffee outside in the back porch! It's 8am and already +17, due to be +25 today, summer has arrived!!! Here few pictures of the back porch:

Holiday work

Mrs B is on summer holidays now and what better way to spend it than gardening... this big pile of soil had to be levelled so we can put down the last grass seeds, it's done now, two hours and several blisters later!

Grass

Watering the freshly planted grass seed

Two apple trees and a currant bush planted

Hanging apple tree (koristeomenapuu)

Rowan (Tuurenpihlaja)

Trees

First trees were planted today! First a quick visit to a garden fare that wasn't really up to much, then to a garden centre where the fence plants came from and home with five pine trees, two apple trees, one rowan and two hanging, decorative apple trees! Pine trees are planted and the rest will follow later. Tomorrow Mr B and Ukki will be planting grass seed. The small greens in between the pines are called "Blue Carpet".  

Outdoors

Ok, about time to start updating the blog again! The house might be ready but outside work has only begun.

Here photos of the latest developments:

200 pieces of Thuja occidentalis Brabant plants arrived in our garden on Friday. They were all planted over the weekend and now we have a lovely fence going around the site. 

Here the bin/bicycle shed, not quite finished, needs painting and slats where you can see through at the moment.

Carport has slats now on the garden side. The inner walls are still waiting for plywood but that can't be done before the electrics are done.

 

 The decking area at the back has been partly cladded and glassed to make it more sheltered. Also still needs to be painted and windos need the similar type of lattice than our actual windows have.

 

Next on the list is liming the ground before the grass seed can be planted. And Stone paving is planned, just need to decide now in what colour and form... also trees will be planted as well as a flowerbed in the front of the house so more to follow...