This garden at the front of the house was the first garden we designed, to use the term loosely, but after 5 or so years, it was time to renovate. The Lomandra had grown too bog and had blocked out all the other plants such that it had become simply a mass of Lomandra. Now Lomandra are nice looking plants and we do have a lot of them, but we decided the garden needed renovating, so out they had to come. Now this was a more difficult exercise than I had anticipated because some of the plants were quite large and well established.
The garden became a major project for Malte and he poured lots of sweat but hopefully no tears into the task of cutting back, then digging out each Lomandra plant and replanting it carefully in The Big Bush Garden. One of the plants proved too difficult to remove by hand so Steve attached a chain around it and tugged it out with the car.
With some of the Lomandra gone you can see how much space we have to work with.
And here it is, almost stripped back to where I can start re-contouring and planting and mulching. There's still a few plants that are still to be removed but these should go over the next couple of days. I shall of course keep you updated on the progress with pics. This garden is now going to be called Malte's Garden.
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