New tree for Garden makeover.

The garden Maker-over has begun with the shed convertion and a new tree or two actually, we went to Majestic trees near the M1 J9, they sell mature trees, ranging from £200 - £20,000, and in varying sizes from 6 Metres to 20 Metres....

Its a lush place to go if you love trees and I love trees, of course what i hate about trees is there slow growth so we bought somthing already 5 years old, it was hard to choose in such a place as they all looked suitable, and when your out of your garden you forget the scale when somewhere else, some of the trees we liked would have drowned our little house.



The one we bought....happy daze...

we actually bought one that was £260 pounds look at picture below,it is a Indian Bean Tree with big leaves and sweet smelling flowers during summer, it has won awards etc but well have to wait a year or two for it to fully show its self, but to be fair others that had been trimmed and were older were costing over £1000 each...we grabbed at the chance and bought it, a short walk through the nursery later we came across the buyer and he was walking around checking prices...we spoke with him and he said that one had been missed out and would be re priced later, but if we wanted it today it would hold the price as shown he said it was there error and one which he regretted...he said we should take our chance and we did.

The shed has been converted too as in we are trying to make it a bit nicer by cladding it, making it all wooden looking instead of all asbestos looking...





Looks better than before



So weve been busy and of course it will continue through the winter, ya gotta have a project or two going right...

Tree Arrival...

It arrives on Thursday the 12.11.09...on that day i had a skip on the drive - what a pratt, only a mini skip but still what a pratt, the guy were just laughing at me, anyway the loory pulled up and the neighbours nets started to twitch, whats this hes having a bloody tree now eh...nosey sods. The side of the lorry was pulled back to reveal two very dead looking tress with no greenery at all on them, a sadness roled over me, when in the tree nursery they were full of life and leaves and now in the winter they looked well sad and dead to be fair, the driver noticed my expression and explained that the trees all look like this at this time of year (unless evergreen) and that Nov is the best time when the tree is dormant to place in a new home, he said within the year the difference will be very obvious, to add to the dead look the trees were strapped down and all the branches are group and tied down.



Anyway they had to move the Skip a bit and then put the tree on a roller trolley, which had go over Brian the neighbours drive, he was out making sure nothing was damaged ha ha lol...bless him., the tree was so heavy but only at the base, we rolled it into the garden and the guys plonked it in the hole....



.....now the hole, i dug it right in fact perfect, but then in my panic thinking it was to deep, i filled it in a bit - TOO MUCH - and now the tree is to high, shit shit!!!! now all the gardens levels have to work to the tree base height....





The guys from the company - Majestic Trees - were not even supposed to help me get in the hole the delivery price was for dropping at the side of the road so i was very lucky in deed.

So its in the hole and it looks a bit well crap really, youll see form the picture at the top that it will be all green etc..but for now it looks a bit as said crap.

Laterz.