Monday, 9 April 2007

Lawn edging

Ahh, who would've thought a lawn edging scheme would be tough to think about. From one who is not handy with tools nor creative, it was a bit of a struggle!
Yesterday, we went to visit three nurseries which also provide landscaping products: Turltle Landscape Supplies, Baulkham Hills Landscape Supplies and Flower Power. The product of choice is C&M's 'Miniwall'. However, after taking into account that 252 pieces plus 252 caps equates to approximately AUD1600 (just under AUD4.00 per piece), we had to drop this idea quickly.

On our way home, we drove around a couple of the neighbouring suburbs to get some other ideas and we did. We have, for now, agreed on using pavers I had spotted at Bunnings Warehouse, a month ago, because they're value for money at AUD0.84 each and because the colour best matched the colour of our driveway (a deep red wine/burgundy shade). Cost? Would you believe just AUD260-300? I'll also have to get some ready mix concrete to form a base and some ready mix mortar to lay these suckers! Plus I'll need some tools too! All up, I anticipate the cost will be in the vicinity of AUD400.

Now I just need to learn how to do some concreting so that I can lay these pavers on their tall sides to form what will be, in our opinion, a darn good looking and colour-coordinated lawn edge.

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