Patio and pond project at my old home

What a transformation. It looked great after all your work.

Really good blog on before and after, love it, really like that pond idea too. Not surprised that you went into garden design and planning after that, it was a good way to go for you.

Looks like you have plenty of garden of your own to take care of Anchorman. I wonder has the king fisher been back. On autumnwatch they said it is juvenile Kingfishers that go to garden ponds as they are chased out of parents territory.

Just shows what can be done witha little imagination and a lot of hard work.very good blog

Wow. Fantastic stuff again Anchorman, not sure about the beard though. LOL

Have to agree what a difference it made knocking it down and even better making a pond, well done it looks brill.

this is a lovely piece of garden design etc. excellent work there anchorman.
i love my pond and wouldnt be without it.

Marvellous idea A/man, looks like a lot of hard work went into that and well worth it!

I've been doing a quick estimate in my head about how long this project took and I'd guess 40-50 hours work over 4 weeks.

You can be proud of your efforts Anchorman, far more satisfying than paying for the job to be done.

It was a big job and a big challenge. The main problem was that from one end of the patio to the other the land sloped nearly 3 feet. I had also never laid bricks or slabs before so it was quite a learning process. I tackled it in 4 hour chunks as I was working full time on my nursery and most of the work was done in the evenings or week ends.

It was one of my most satisfying projects

A very interesting blog, AM! You certainly transformed that old garage into something both nice to look at & a very practical, useful space. Well done! :-))

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looks fab and would love a big garden like this to, well done

Thanks Sanbaz. Unfortunately the above property had to be sold when my ex decided to leave many years ago so my current garden is about a third the size. It's still a third of an acre though so not bad considering.

thats a shame A`man, with you talent im sure whatever size garden it would look just as lovely.

It was a huge wrench to leave that place because not only was I leaving a garden I'd put many hours into but it meant giving up being a plant nurseryman as the nursery was on site. It took me nearly 10 years after leaving there to get the money together to buy a small place with enough land to have a very small nursery.

To be honest now I'm a full time gardener I wouldn't want a huge garden of my own.My own garden is designed very much with low maintenance in mind .See photos in my GoY photo section and there is a blog about my current garden.

My current third of an acre is divided up with roughly a quarter being cultivated garden, a quatter used as a plant nursery and the remainder is left as awild area where I can encourage wild life and have a huge compost heap( 2o feet by 20 feet) and a similar sized area for a bonfire to get rid of all the stuff I bring back from my customers gardens.

Sounds pretty good now for you, an excellent project - its not easy working with a sloping garden, ours does too..in many ways a gentle slope is worse that a sharp one

yes A,man iv seen your blogs and love you work on your garden and others you have done, so all your hard work has paid off and you can look at it and know its all yours :o)