Second week and full steam ahead!

We’re now into the second week of the build and with only seven days left to finish completely, the guys from Greenbelt Landscapes are still on target and the build is looking great! They did, however, have to work all day Sunday until 6.30pm even though this had originally been planned as a rest day. As they say, no rest for the wicked!!

The weekend was spent rendering the walls, which dried really quickly in the heat. The very last bit however, was put on just towards the end of the day when there was a drop in temperature and they they had to wait around until it dried. The coping stones are now on top of the highest walls, and there’s only a small bit of render left to do in the two apertures in the walls.

When I visited site today, the pond liner had been fitted and the team are now laying the paving from Natural Paving to the edges of the garden. Elliott and Al were getting the levels of the stone coping around the pool just right – within millimetres! This is so that when the water goes in they can fill it as high as possible under the coping so that you cannot see the liner at all. I’d call them perfectionists, which is just what you need when building an RHS garden. Those judges sure can be harsh!

 

I’d arrived today to take delivery of the grasses and David from Wildly Rural was spot on time. There was a slight delay as he had brought his dogs and as they aren’t allowed on site, so he had to bring only one of the two delivery vans on site at a time. The grasses were definitely worth the wait! They have put on lots of growth since I last saw them three weeks ago and many are flowering beautifully, creating a lovely soft swishy look, especially the larger Anemanthele lessioniana. They will look stunning against the cream of the rendered walls!

 

Next stop, Ladybrook Nursery to pick my perennials for delivery on Thursday!