path stones – The Gardening Blog

This seems like the week of garden activity for me! Thank goodness, I have the strength to do the manual labour needed to get this job done! But – here I had lots of help! We finally got around to throwing stones for our new Zen area. It is already taking shape and I am so pleased that my hubby is gonna be part of this garden feature!

My faithful work horse! This is going to be a tough delivery!

[one_half]Ok – this is the 40 sq.m. area we need to fill[/one_half]

[one_half_last]It is a substantial piece of land[/one_half_last]

[one_half]This is 4 tons of stone![/one_half]

[one_half_last]13mm Worcester – from Bark & Stone[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Working my butt off![/one_half]

[one_half_last]Nearly done! Whew![/one_half_last]

Zooooooom!! Who would have known that this job took us exactly 1 hour to complete!

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[one_half]Neatens up the whole area[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Also brightens up the area[/one_half_last]

I am super happy that we have leapt over this hurdle. Again, we have used the services of Bark & Stone in Montague Gardens. Their service is great and Dennis, who delivers the stone, maneuvers his huge truck through narrow gaps like a pro. Thanks guys, once again! Now comes the decorating. We want to put up a sheltered cover where we can sit (maybe in our hammocks) and enjoy the cool evenings or just relaxing with a good book and dozing in the late afternoons – hey? What do you think?

Happy gardening this week xxxxx

I have wanted to complete my garden for years with the final throwing of stones on the paths around my house. We have finally completed this daunting task. We have imagined this task to be an enormous monster so it has taken us 3 years to pluck up enough courage. I had to prepare the paths for “the big stone path project” for the past 3 years – re-weeding every winter and scraping it clean every summer. Well, you will not believe it when I tell you that from the off loading of the stones to the completion of the path all around the house took us exactly 1 hour 15 minutes. We thought it was a whole day job with any additional time made for the next day. We had 2 wheel barrows and my hubby was amazed that I managed to keep up with him. 56 wheel barrows later we completed the path!! I would not have believed it!! All done! But I was physically and mentally finished after that!!

Here is the results with a few before and after shots!

[one_half]Before[/one_half]

[one_half_last]After[/one_half_last]

This is 13mm brown stone we used and we needed 2.5 cub./m to fill the path (a total of 47 sq.m) all around the house (not including the driveway which is the larger brown stone 19mm/25mm done 3 years ago). It was ordered on Monday, delivered Thursday by truck and off loaded onto a black plastic sheet 4x5m, 56 wheel barrows to lay out the path and completed 1 hour 15 minutes later.

[one_half]The driveway area with larger stones[/one_half]

[one_half_last]These stones were harder to lay out[/one_half_last]

[one_half]By the side of the house-after[/one_half]

[one_half_last]What it looked like an hour before[/one_half_last]

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[one_half]Coming towards the back garden[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Looking back towards the fig tree[/one_half_last]

[one_half]A better view of back garden path[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Another angle from the back deck[/one_half_last]

I was so impressed with the stress-free project from the great service and advice from Stone & Bark in Montague Gardens to the delivery of the stones by Dennis, who had no problem finding Philadelphia and arriving on time as promised and dropping the stones exactly on the plastic sheet we had already waiting for him, to the actual hard work that lasted just over 1 hour! What a great result!! I would rather do this than go to gym for an hour!! It looks like a million dollars!! Now for a cup of tea!!

Happy gardening xxxxxx