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Category Archives: Garden
Flowering hanging baskets
Flowering hanging baskets along the front porch.
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Park bench refurbishment. About to apply the second coat after sanding down this morning.
Annual council collection – finished
That’s it for this years council collection, the last truck (green one) has cleared my three big stacks of green one of which was on my neighbours side. Left a real mess out onto the road which is all cleaned … Continue reading
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Annual Council Collection 4
The tree lopping, pruning, bundling and final stacking out on the nature strip is done Thanks to Philip Tyme for coming over this morning to help me with areas 2 and 3.
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Annual council collection 3
Follow up to previous post, completing Area 1. This is the last wheelbarrow load to finish Area 1
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Annual council collection 2
Still working on the green stuff for annual council collection. As mentioned there are three areas and all the lopping is done which is a good start considering we have a dodgy back. This is Area 1 – this photo … Continue reading
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Annual Council Collection 1
Monash annual council collection has come around again and this year my focus is on lopping and pruning three areas, one at the front and two at the back. Bit of a bugger that my back has been dodgy the … Continue reading
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Garden gazebo water barrel feature – continued
With everything removed this is the Japanese water spout, the roots of the water lily had completely filled the inner plastic tub liner and even engulfed the water pump. I had to use secateurs to locate and cut free the … Continue reading
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Bunnings shopping trip
Wanted to spend my 70th birthday Bunnings gift cards (pooled) on a Ozito Multi Purpose Saw and also get a 30cm wooden barrel to repair the Bamboo Water Spout feature in the gazebo area. Unplanned purchase – this is the … Continue reading
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