It’s great to get a video from you Rob, haven’t heard from you for a long time and hope you are keeping well. The floating seats look fabulous mate and will look even better once the plants have become established too, and what a great place to sit too! We have Bird of Paradise over here in the U.K. but are only for indoors as they are not hardy for our winters although some folk put them out in the summer time, lovely plant though when in flower. Well done! 👏👏👏. Cheers. ………..Graham
Looking Great Robert!!!! Really nice use of the space to create a relaxing oasis. The planter boxes and floating bench look awesome! Center of the courtyard? How about adding a fountain focal point, I.E. maybe a large colored ( yellow glazed) round ceramic vase and create a water feature, place Japanese egg rock at the fountain base. As a patio surface, place 2'x2' textured conc stepping stones as a patio surface (Grid Pattern) with a 4" spacing between pavers. Something like dark green dwarf Mondo grass 4" pots(Its super low/ if it grows there and place between the stepping stones. Oh don't forget to add time released fertilizer then mulch your planting beds & Low voltage lights for evening mood lighting. Just passing along a few possible design thoughts. Good Luck Sir Robert!! - Alex K. (Retired Landscape Architect in Florida and fellow model railroader)
Great work Robert and will make a beautiful socializing area for your court yard when all plants come into flowing. Good to see you well and alive. The seating is a great idea and looks cool. How is the layout coming on?. Take care and all the best - Kevin
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Absolutely beautiful. Well done 👏👏👏
Thank you very much! cheers
It’s great to get a video from you Rob, haven’t heard from you for a long time and hope you are keeping well. The floating seats look fabulous mate and will look even better once the plants have become established too, and what a great place to sit too! We have Bird of Paradise over here in the U.K. but are only for indoors as they are not hardy for our winters although some folk put them out in the summer time, lovely plant though when in flower. Well done! 👏👏👏. Cheers. ………..Graham
Graham, Bird of Paradise is one of my favs and hopefully they look great when they get bigger cheers Robert
What a real nice job Sir Robert, The wife must be real Happy with you. Bob
Sir Bob the wife love's it and i'm in the good books lol cheers Robert
Very Nice Build, and Workmanship Robert.
Glad to see you back I was wondering about You.
Cheers Mate!!!
Andy M
Thanks 👍 Andy has been awhile cheers Robert
Very nice job Rob. Nice design too.
Thanks Richard was a good big job cheers Robert
Looking Great Robert!!!! Really nice use of the space to create a relaxing oasis. The planter boxes and floating bench look awesome!
Center of the courtyard? How about adding a fountain focal point, I.E. maybe a large colored ( yellow glazed) round ceramic vase and create a water feature, place Japanese egg rock at the fountain base. As a patio surface, place 2'x2' textured conc stepping stones as a patio surface (Grid Pattern) with a 4" spacing between pavers. Something like dark green dwarf Mondo grass 4" pots(Its super low/ if it grows there and place between the stepping stones.
Oh don't forget to add time released fertilizer then mulch your planting beds & Low voltage lights for evening mood lighting.
Just passing along a few possible design thoughts.
Good Luck Sir Robert!!
- Alex K. (Retired Landscape Architect in Florida and fellow model railroader)
Alex, thanks for all the tips will look into them cheers Robert
Beautiful work, Robert. It’s great to see what you’ve been up to. Happy gardening! 👊🏼😎
Thanks mate and was good working out in the sunshine cheers Robert
that is beautiful!!
Well thank you cheers Robert
Gonna be a great garden. Things look great. Glad to see a video from you. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Thanks Dave and was a long time between video's cheers Robert
that is off to a beautiful start. you have a knack for what you're doing :)
Thanks mate cheers
Very cool! Can’t wait to see trains run through it.
Me too! lol thanks Mark
beautiful work
Thank you cheers Robert
nice design ..
Thank you! Cheers!
Good video looks good
Will be good to see in about 12 months cheers Robert
Great work Robert and will make a beautiful socializing area for your court yard when all plants come into flowing. Good to see you well and alive. The seating is a great idea and looks cool. How is the layout coming on?. Take care and all the best - Kevin
Kevin, can't wait to see how she looks in about 12 months time
Haven't done much on the layout but will get back to it soon cheers Robert
This is really well done, what are the dimensions of the sleeper boards you used? And could this be replicated with 2x6 or 2x8 boards?
The board size's where 90mm x 19mm which is 3.5 inches x 3/4 inch
The sleepers are 200mm x 75mm which is 8inches x 2.7inches
so now you have a place to sit, and say watch trains on the new too be out door layout? nice job sir.
Now thats a great idea G Scale lol
hope you are doing well
Yes doing well, will get back to the train room soon cheers Robert