Extreme budget landscaping

So half of the garden is in, but no brick edging yet because nobody on Gumtree bloody answers their phone!

 

@joel Go to @D.T. Development and knock some bricks off!
Or go searching for a new estate and go through the rubbish piles! Free!

 

It's not far, he can probably walk each one over individually (if there's any left by time he goes there)

 

I was just gonna nick em from the house I'm renting

 

@joel if you can find yourself some Gaura Lindheimeri they will fill a garden bed in a month or so and are drought proof. They grow in pavement cracks so you could probably find some. They were declared weeds in NSW up until recently but they are pretty and they are expensive to buy at the shops but you would literally only need one plant and your garden bed will be full in now time. You can literally take a chainsaw to them in winter and they will spring back and flower for most of the year! They aren't very structural but look great in a garden bed.

 

@joel bricks are a lot of work to dig in. Just get some plastic edging from bunnings, easier and cheaper

 

This sorta thing? Barrier Edging

 

Yep, cheap and nasty but easier than digging bricks in!

 

and saves a lot of back breaking labour later on trying to get the bloody grass out of the garden beds

 

Looks crap. I'll get some pretty edging for the walkway side of the garden but otherwise whatever's free is what I'm using! I also noticed an identical house on the same street, no garden but they had the tapered driveway

 

Go to your nearest railway and grab some sleepers!
You may have one of those back packers there to do the digging for you have fun

 

Railway lines are to heavy to lift out of the way, dig out under them and slide out..

Where you can find timber ones these days

 

In WA they probably use brick railway sleepers!
They can be hard to come by, but once your far enough out of the city the old ones will be stacked up somewhere rotting away. Otherwise builders seconds places or Gumtree

 

Paver edge (not brick with holes) in a wavy or circular pattern is a beautiful thing.

Landscapers trick is to roll out a hose along the length of intended edge , dig your trench next to the hose makes perfect curves.

Cheap plastic bunnings edge? How dare you bob. Can you even run a lawnmower wheel on that ?

 

Haha...going by the other posts it won't get mowed!

 

Ha true , might be a scissors job

 

They'll have scissors for the weed....s

 

Scissors for weed (that gets chopped in a bowl), not for the weeds

 

All of the ground to the left of the lawn is that f'ing hard it's practically concrete.
Not sure if I should still try to taper the driveway (solid line) since it'll be hard to get grass to grow in the additional area, or just square it up with the house (dotted line) and have a double car space which doesn't align with the actual driveway. Red = brick edging.

The little strip to the left of the driveway has some random concrete slabs in it, so if I'm going to put a garden in I'll likely have to smash these up. Might leave this til last.

 

These drawings are awesome.
They should use them on the gardening shows.