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A small private garden in Brentwood, Essex in South-East England.

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Linda\'s new koi cushions
Linda\'s new koi cushion
Linda\'s new koi cushion
Cutting it up to 1ft through
Over Ashley\'s shed
The shed that Roy Built
Over Roy\'s shed
job done - 18th Dec
job done - 18th Dec
job done - 18th Dec
LED lamp - on - 18th Dec
LED oil lamp - 18th Dec
ist. Pagoda 1976
thick stem of tree dahlia
blackened top os tree dahlia
blackened tree dahlia
slate pots - 3rd Dec
all seats down - 16th Nov
all seats up - 16th Nov
2 seats up 2 down - 16th Nov
painted moon-gate in place - 22nd Oct
moon-gate front prepared for painting - 18th Oct
all four strips in place - 17th Oct
two steamed strips resting - 15th Oct
second strip in place - 15th Oct
taking steamed wood from box - 15th Aug
first strip fixed - 15th Oct
wood steamer in action - 15th Oct
decorative moon-gate supports complete - 14th Oct
marking for radiating supports - 13th Oct
marking moon-gate position - 12th Oct
babboo embossed glass inside - 11 Oct
babboo embossed glass - 11 Oct
two piece wood steaming box - 10th Oct
walls completed - 7th Oct
one inner skin fixed - 3rd Oct
inside of roof - 3rd Oct
Insid wall showing battens - 3rg Oct
one outer skin fixed - 3rd Oct
Wall side out sides being painted indoors - 1st Ocy
both rooves completed and painted - 30th Sept
finials and ridge tiles painted for fitting - 30th Sept
fencing cladding going on main roof - 17th Sept
small roof completed and painted - 11th Sept
finials and ridge tiles fitted - 3rd Sept
small roof clad - 2nd Sept
testing the strength - 27th Aug
dry run with timberwork - 26th Aug
temporary scaffold in use again - 25th Aug
all joists made - 25th Aug
main roof on temporary scaffold - 23rd Aug
top roof frame, joists and centre post - 19th Aug
completed walkway 19th Aug
footway woodwork 28th July
footway woodwork 26th July
Pillar top 26th July
Pillar top slab 21st July
Walk way pillars 19th July
two walkway pillars 17th July
walkway pillars started 15th July
Step built 11th July
Uprights and top frame built 9th July
bottom frame in place 6th July
wood added to steel frame 2nd July
Daryl grinding welds 18th June
Daryl welding pagoda frame 18th June
steel fencing cut and laid out 17th June
controlled conflagration
long live the pagoda
homemade crane
six bags of mud
Orange and Lemon in new greenhouse
Dahlia imperialis in mid May
New greenhouse 2
New Greenhouse
A little way into desilting
pond pumped out May 2017
Bent badger fencing
Epimedium 'Space Wagon'
Top half removed
Roger 'Hammer Man' Hammond
Last quarter out
Magnolia salicifolia
Magnolia salicifolia
Magnolia salicifolia
Magnolia salicifolia
Field Mouse
Neocaridina heteropoda feeding on algae wafer
Neocaridina heteropoda 'Rili' with eggs (berried)
Neocaridina heteropoda various
Neocaridina heteropoda blue
Neocaridina heteropoda yellow
Refurbished Aquarium
Bridge with Linda 2016
Linda's attempt to recreate 1978 image!
Completed bridge
Mass painting of footway pieces
Handrail fixing
Footway nearly complete
First Meranti strip fixed
Paul using the band saw
In her element
Homemade clamps
Bridge with Linda 1978
Two pieces of arch joined
Two arches in place
Two arches built
Routing footway pieces
Remains of old bridge
Pond Silt in Ton Bags
Epimedium grandiflorum \'Jennie Maillard
New paving and epimedium bed
New block raised bed
New block raised bed 2
Epimedium Website
Third Pond Bed
Third Pond Bed
Pond Silt in Ton Bags
New Yorkstone Paved Area
Ex Waterlily Pot
Air Raid Shelter Steps and Raised Bed
Air Raid Shelter Epimedium Bed
Norfolk Plant Fair Epimedium Display
RHS Hyde Hall Epimedium Display
Epimedium x versicolor 'Versicolor'
Epimedium 'Red Maximum'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilac Seedling'
Bottom broken up
Waterlily box being demolished
Pond dry and most plants removed
Pond being pumped out
Freshly planted bed
Bathroom debris being covered with pond filter stones
Epimedium 'Wisley Imp'
Colin and Billy by display area
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Akagiza Kura'
New Epimediums
Paul & Valerie Guppy's Garden
Dahlia imperialis 'Alba'
Giant Magnolia Leaf
Epimedium x youngianum 'Shikinomai'
Old Goldfish Pond
Raised bed ready for planting
Concrete breaking
Breaking the concrete pond bottom.
Vibrating Pensioner
Pond pumped out
Pond before starting project
Ex-pond just planted
Magnolia 'Royal Crown' new growth
New Epimediun Nursery Bed Planted
Five Ex-water Plant Tubs
Smaller New Nursery Bed
Fibreglass tank in place
Wooden frame constructed
Tank filled with compost
Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snowflake'
Epimedium display at Hyde Hall 2014
Epimedium display at Hyde Hall 2014
Epimedium Nursery Greenhouse
'Monarch' apple and Hydrangea petiolaris
Magnolia 'Royal Crown'
New Epimedium Planting
New Epimedium Planting
Epimedium Pot Area
Epimedium Pot Display Area
5 Foot Tank
Bedroom Tank
Amazon Sword Tank
Crypt. Tank
Cotinus 'Grace'
Nyssa sinensis (flash)
Treading down the leaves to get more in
Leafmould Tower
Magnolia sargentiana robusta leaves over a foot long
Even More Slugs
New AFK Arbor Seat
New Air-raid Shelter Door
Arbour Seat Base
A use for your dead koi
Feed the wildlife
Rotted Old Seat
Chusquea couleou
Phyllostachys praecox 'Viridisulcata'
Thamnocalamus spathiflorus
Phyllostachys kwangsiensis seedlings
Epimedium seedlings
Shed Replacement
Yuck
Phyllostachys kwangsiensis seed pan
Epimedium Seedlings
Hostas after topdressing with sheeps wool pellets
oldsite
Frost devastated 'Athene'
Karen & Denis, Hard Workers
Karen Cleaning Hostas
After Cureing
Sarah Applying the Silicon
Partially Welcome Visitors
New Half Price Features
Slow worm
Epimedium Seedlings
Frogs spawn
Failed Experiment
Hellebors niger double
Camellia japonica 'Lily Pons'
Daredevil
Damn it's Cold
New Labels
Tied up Tree Fern
Snowy Pagoda
Bird table - Dec 2004
ist Pagoda Nov. 2005
ist Pagoda Nov. 2005
'Outback Cam' Picture of a Badger
Tawny Owl-under-arbor-seat
Tawny Owl
Aerial view
Celastrus on Pear Tree.
Arty View up Ladder!
Aerial View of Arbor Seat
Aerial View of Water Lily Pond with Celastrus Shoots in foreground.
'Outback Cam' Picture of a Badger

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