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You would have liked my place's street appeal then :D Waist-high nettles, almost all the shrubs savagely cut down with a chainsaw (including a foot-thick grape vine which has since started to regrow), bits of miniorb flappitying off the house and shadecloth bodgied up all over the place. Its...

This thread is making me want to kidnap a big beefcake to do the heavy work (I'm a 53kg elf and my partner is barely any bigger - we're "puny") and set up as a "landscape architect". I'm a compulsive gardener. I've left a trail of pretty gardens behind me in my 17 odd years of adult life...

Hell yes. We (sans landscape architect) have plans for one of those wanky outdoor entertainment areas (aka the 6mx6m dead space outside the kitchen window), fair bit of paving, maybe a pergola etc. Those suckers cost a lot. But considering the backyard is currently looking like a building site...

Thousands? Good lord, my front yard cost me about $200. A dozen or so nice sculptural natives (dianella, lomandra and proteas), my own sweat killing the remnants of the nettle infested lawn and levelling it, and a load of pretty gravel mulch. Found some artsy looking white rocks in the backyard...