Part 5 of 7 - Tina’s Garden Design & Makeover 🌼🌼🌼

hi everyone it's Janette here and Tina we are back in Tina's garden for part five of the garden and it's actually day 10 of gardening day 10 so if you watched last week you will have seen that we finished for the moment we finished all this side the greenhouse side and we're so happy so happy with how it's turned out it's lovely really beautiful really beautiful there's one thing that Tina wanted to change isn't it this beautiful blue spruce because they were sitting in their preservatory and it blocks the view doesn't it of the rock garden so that's a very good point cuz obviously we haven't sat over there and had a look so this is going over to the cocktail corner side and we've had a little bit of a rethink as well about cocktail corner side because we had initially planned for just one row of stepping stones on this side and as you know we've ended up with two which I think has worked out perfectly yeah I think it has as well far easier for gardening because obviously you can get to your plants easier cuz it is a large area isn't it it is very so because of that we've laid out a straight line over that side but it to me it just doesn't look right i think it needs to be a little bit curved to mirror so let's go over and have a look and we'll explain our plans so this is what I meant as you can see the going around that way and going around that way and I think if you look over here this straight line it just it's not intriguing enough is it Tina no needs to be more intrigue so what we were thinking is we will mirror the ark on this side as you can see that one goes that way starts right close to the end of the cabin steps and it goes that way so I think what we're going to do is start there and we're going to go around in an arc this way as Tina's walking and there will be the the seating that's what we're going to do take that up sweep it around that way and then hopefully that's going to kind of mirror that shape so that's what we need to do first of all is kind of level this a little bit yeah put the stepping stones in and then we have some beautiful plants so that's our job for today first of all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] We've done it and goodness it's level should we prove it Kina should we prove that he's level i bet he isn't now look at that right now I had a great idea last night i couldn't sleep in bed because Tina and Keith had this large sheet of mirror and right at the very start when we looked at the garden they said if you can use this and I've been racking my brains and I was thinking first of all along there or on the opposite side maybe along there but the only problem is that they have so many birds in their garden don't you Tina and we're just really worried that birds might fly into it so that's what was stopping me but I had a great idea we're going to put it here show you keith's going to help us behind the wisteria which I should mention look at all these buds that is going to just burst very very soon and look gorgeous so there's no time to spare we can slide it behind and and it's the perfect time to do it isn't it Tina it is so let's have a go at the mirror [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm thinking of how you're going to fix it there cuz if you think you can just lay there and never get disturbed by the wind you're going to be really the fence will bounce it'll knock the mirror it will smash still think it needs to come that way a bit you want it right up to the post yeah I agree with that this way okay that looks ridiculous so that's got to be cut off it then fits nicely Yeah between the two concrete posts oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so I think it needs to come off have that 6 in on the end taken away and then fix it between the two posts perfect that's my opinion no I agree thank you for the concrete [Music] 70 i can't get out i can't unpatch it okay it's going to cut the black bit off we're back in business keith has cut another little bit off all the way along so now it should fit in between the two posts so let's see the moment of [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] truth right so you can see now it fits exactly in between the posts and Keith is getting some brackets oh I think it looks stunning absolutely stunning so he's going to fix it to the fence post with some brackets we are nearly there wonderful so you can see Keith has put some brackets a piece of wood all the way along a little bracket holding it in and he's put a piece of wood all the way along it's kind of wedging it in isn't it it's not going to go anywhere what can we say we're so pleased that wasn't on the list was it that wasn't on the list so thank you so much to Keith for uh putting that in sorting that out so we we're so pleased so last week we said this is the last of the hard labor do we we did and we lied famous last words so we have laid the stepping stones we have a few plants to move we We already have moved the blue spruce over this side tina also has an olive which is in a pot so we're going to bring that to this side we just went to the garden to get stepping stones and some bags of soil and we we were happily wandering back towards the hills and we both stopped in our tracks and didn't we have the same plant so wait till I show you that it is gorgeous really gorgeous had to have it we had to we had to and we're going to make little groupings of rock gardens rather than one big rock garden and we thought we'd do something slightly different before we go any further let's go back to November to the very start before we had done any work in this cocktail corner area and you can see it felt very overcrowded it felt like all the conifers were taking up all the space which they were they were encroaching 6 ft into the space and then the brick walls in front sort of brought the garden even smaller so we decided we would limb up the conifers and straight away it just gave a sense of space and something we could work with we removed all the brick walls for the raised beds that created a nice flatter area as well then we decided we'd remove some older shrubs that weren't really enhancing the garden the garden is small so we want to have plants that we absolutely love and then of course we just had to remove the big old heei and we were so pleased that we did that it just lightened the whole area and so here you can see the whole area has been cleared lots of space to work in the pond filter which is over in the corner that was moved fortunately so it's gone there and it was moved over to the other side of the pond and then the waterfall which was on the right hand side of the pond that was moved to the left hand side of the pond and it just created a different aspect a beautiful pond flow now which is making the fish very very happy our next job was to mark out the area of the grass on this side which mirrors the other side so we just sprayed the shape that we wanted and we literally just dug the grass away to create more border that's what we did there and then we rotivated because this had never been planted in it's always been grass so you can imagine it's very hard to dig in but we rotated it and here we are right now with the stepping stones laid well we think the mirror is looking absolutely stunning going to see a a wonderful reflection the fish are looking very very happy we are delighted aren't we Tina we are delighted with how this mirror looks and we'll clean it all up and once this is planted you're obviously going to see the reflection so it's just going to look like a beautiful carpet of wonderful things so thank you so much for watching i'm Janette and I'm Tina we are the Enthusiastic Gardeners and we hope you've enjoyed today's video thank you so much for watching bye