Gramps Garden Makeover pt 1

Gramps Exclusive Country Resort (a made-up name resulting from having lot's of friends and family stay on their way through to Melb or adelaide) was a vacant block (with a few trees) in June 2001
when my partner and I bought it. Weeds were over 5 feet high in
places. The block is 20 by 60 m (deep to the North).

We set about landscaping the back half of the block. This was with raised beds of sandy loam and eucalyptus mulch.

We followed a shallow
meandering depression as a guide for a dry creek bed garden. We had to be realistic
about what we could achieve -- knowing that the plumber would
eventually trench through to the back for the sewer connection.

photos show the dates and growth... It's now a garden that you have to move around to see all the plants and landscape rocks etc, not a one-glance garden.

The first heavy rain after the sewer went in, and the ground subsided massively where the deep trench (~5.5 m!) was for the main sewer connection...

this took some poly piping I'd layed-in down a metre or so in the process! More is the irony, that when we get standing water
in the yard, the creek absorbs more water than the surrounding bare earth - so it doesn't fill up!