This next garden was created in March of this year, near the village of Mullion on the lovely Lizard peninsula.
This job involved the use of sleepers as you will see with the next images.....
And after digging out the trenches, we set about cutting the sleepers by hand with jacksaws....a very tiresome job, going through at least 4 saws!!
We concreted the sleepers in place and used metal ties thereby joining one to another. The cup of tea was most welcome too!
In the main we were lucky with the weather too, coming out of the very cold winter that we had, it was nice to work in the warming spring sunshine.
Now our work was taking shape, the idea was to cut the sleepers at differing heights, as seen here this brings light and shadow into play.
Plus the use of water brings another element into the equation, with decorative gravel over the banked up soil giving a great view from the house.
With most of the plants in the ground we are nearly there......
The large stone in the foreground made such a wonderful compliment to the beach cobbles.
Below we can see how the grass on the right (Stipa tenuissima), looks with the low spring light levels.
We used Agave's, Restio's, grasses, and drought tolerant and coastal plants.
How one can enjoy the textures and forms and the colours and light, movement and sounds in an ever changing garden :-)
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