well as fast as the two of us could go with pick and shovel and two wheelbarrows
Lots of digging in 2009, removing/replacing plants and amending soil!
The first project was tackling the jungle on the east side of the house..... before pics from 2007 before we moved in and after pics 2009
before
during and after
The narrow strip next to the garage
The terrace trough
Next big project – West side retaining walls.
before
Oct 2008 after addition of store room and first landscaping
End of June 2009 we started moving and rearranging each individual stone of the existing wall. Two weeks of hard labour and we could see a difference but still had quite a way to go!
How’s the saying go? ‘Stop and smell the roses!’
And when we did stop for a breather, we were already able to start enjoying the fruits of our labour!
April - Daffs and tulips
May - Allium - Foxies and Peonie - Roses and Pansies - Sweet William
June - Clematis, Roses and Spirea - Lillies and Roses
The front garden - hard to imagine the state it was in the year before!
August 1, Swiss National Day, arrived and is traditionally the beginning of our three week summer holiday
The view from our terrace 
We had big plans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
6 palettes of retaining wall stones!
And so we continued on the west side of the house, moving individual stones and digging back into the slope
Two weeks solid and the results could be seen but we were ‘kapooped’! And the stones on the palettes were still in the driveway! But ‘Genug was Genug’! It was actually a pleasure cutting the hedge - a job we never look forward to ...
August and September passed in a flash and with October came the addition of our ‘Wintergarden’ (aka Sunroom)
Aesthetically, perhaps not the most attractive addition to the house but boy did it make those chilly autumn evenings that much more comfortable!
Today, I look back at 2009 with great satisfaction and quite a bit of pride. Especially when I consider that the two of us did it all ourselves and that only on weekends and during the holidays!
Discussions:
| Thread Title | Last Reply | Replies |
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| Congratulations on your hard work! by LysmachiaMoon | Jan 5, 2017 11:35 PM | 3 |
| all that work by sallysmom | Jan 5, 2017 10:51 PM | 1 |
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