This June, some of our J. Parker’s team helped to put the finishing touches to the patient garden at St David’s Hospice in Llandudno, North Wales. We donated a new gazebo, planters, compost and hundreds of bedding plants to help finish off the garden which the St David’s team have lovingly built so that the patients at the hospice can enjoy an outside space full of colourful flowers.
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We tackled a project last summer that I was loathe to do, but after years of praying to the Yard Crasher gods to no avail, we plunged into the pool patio project. Our inground pool is surrounded by a paver patio that pre-project resembled an animal pen. By that, I mean the metal fence that runs the perimeter was very, very close, allowing just enough space for two people to pass but certainly not to comfortably seat anyone. I don’t know how it is that I cannot locate a photo of the before, to illustrate how tight it was. However, here is a photo taken afterward, where the measuring tape denotes the end of the former pool patio. Tight, right?
There were other issues as well: like popping pavers no longer flush and wily weeds that dotted the landscape. I should add that we love the pool, use it often, and are very grateful to have it, but did also hope to entertain there. So, with misgiving and self-doubt, we undertook the patio project. Mind you, we did price out all our options first – stone, new pavers, and poured concrete. Each was more than we’d expected (naturally) or could rationalize spending.
Onward. We began by pulling up every last paver.
There are a lot of very sweaty, dirty details you needn’t know. Above, we had just started to mortar in new stones around the pool to prevent frost heave around the bullnose edge securing the liner. Below, we’ve created a muddy mess. Where the fence ends is where the old patio ended, abruptly. The dirt below is the now cleared land to be readied for gravel.
Many wheelbarrows of gravel later, we have tamped down the area and readied for sand. More wheelbarrows of sand, tamped down again, then leveled with a level and multiple leveling strings in every direction! We were constantly
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