The new winter display for the Walled Garden, a grass and white gravel knot design, was being finished after a month's work (as narrated by my colleague who could see from his window)...
Lots going on outside my office window today...new bedding scheme being created....watch this space! pic.twitter.com/5u0EHl2bhE
— Tim Hughes (@TimHughes_) October 7, 2014
Mmm it's not your standard seasonal bedding display.....what do you think it is going to be? pic.twitter.com/7ZLdD8ihZi
— Tim Hughes (@TimHughes_) October 7, 2014
Measure twice, cut once! pic.twitter.com/HS5tlvO3dm
— Tim Hughes (@TimHughes_) October 22, 2014
Weed control fabric being installed, crucial this does not show through the next layer (gravel?). pic.twitter.com/1CxLDR3HjX
— Tim Hughes (@TimHughes_) October 24, 2014
Hmm not sure about this....Mowing should be interesting!..Kids will love the gravel!....perhaps it will grow on me. pic.twitter.com/OPa5jxO75m
— Tim Hughes (@TimHughes_) November 3, 2014
... and we had an opportunity to learn some of the principles that were behind its implementation.The most important points were:
- measurements should always be from straight perpendicular lines, and the bricks in the Walled Garden beds are obviously not, so and external measurement baseline is needed
- a builder's square with two tape measurers, pins and some string are all the equipment needed
- a circle is a line of points equidistant from a centre, so to draw circles you have to know where the centre is and then, from it, mark as many points on the line as you can to make it more accurate (in this case before cutting in the turf). The string at the bottom of the pins marks the outline of the shape.
Another suggestions we were given was that weed membrane is better than woven plastic when making designs, as it is easier to shape.
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