After the completion of Rod's stone wall, several sessions were spent improving the soil ready for planting and also installing stones on the high side to retain the driveway.
Over several months I have been purchasing plants ready for this area. In keeping with the colour scheme of our house the barn features two coach lights with burgundy shades, therefore I decided that plants with burgundy foliage would continue the theme and show to perfection contrasting against the carriage green and cream of the barn walls and doors.
Several plants throughout the new garden are green or variegated so that they also provide a foil for the richness of the red and burgundy plants. As well as differing plant forms, a variety of foliage shapes has been taken into consideration to achieve maximum interest. Lastly an irrigation system was carefully laid out before the whole garden was spread with the bark mulch that we had prepared from the shredding bark from our gum trees (see entry at the end of March).
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