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Site of proposed rain garden |
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Border left of left path to be levelle |
So I had this idea! Another idea!! YET another idea!! It started off as a sunken garden in front of the studio - all rocks and ferns and then it happened. A rain garden!! All the rain from the garage/office block flows into the septic tank which shouldn't ever happen. As we plan to level the Creosote Yard (using the Ebay bargain slabs) what's wrong with building a rill around the outside, redirecting the down pipes and all the run off being directed into the sunken rock garden. Hey presto! A rain garden. We could install a pump/natural water feature in order that any collected water
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Site of proposed bridge |
is kept moving and so doesn't stagnate or attract mosquitoes. Planting might need to cope with/without water so care needed on that one. We could also build in an overflow channel in case of any great floods.
We had already planned to terrace the border left of the greenhouse path and have a retaining wall thus making a little bit more level garden. Whenever one looks in garden magazines or watches any gardening programmes; no one ever talks about gardening on a sloping site and nearly all of this garden slopes! Now, I'm on the lookout for about a 1000 reclaimed bricks - any suggestions anyone?
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Imagine a bridge over a fern filled sunken garden to the studio |
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