Recently, we decided to work on our front garden. It has been about one and a half years since we started living in the house, so we thought it was time to finish the garden.
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With an idea and a budget in mind, we started researching. First of all, I shared my main concerns for the garden with Harith, addressing the problems I noticed. Primarily, I wanted to have a broader border that separates our garden area from the cinnamon land around our house. Harith's main concern was having a smaller grass area to reduce maintenance effort. Other than that, we agreed on typical gardening elements like grass, gravel, interlocking pavings, flowers, and statues.
We then drew a rough outline on the ground, marking where we wanted to place everything. It became clear that we had several challenges ahead. The main issues were two lines of cinnamon trees in front of our main door and a Jambu plant very close to the path leading to the wicket gate. Additionally, our garden wasn't level, and the area where we parked our car wasn't centered with the main gate. So, we did a lot of brainstorming to plan the rough design.
Once we came up with a rough sketch based on measurements and our requirements, we needed to decide how to get the work done. We had two options: first, we could handle all the work ourselves by outsourcing each element separately; secondly, we could fully outsource the work to a gardening service. We checked the feasibility and cost of both options. After explaining our design to our mason, he provided us with an estimate for all the concrete, cement, and interlocking work. Keeping that in mind, we reached out to two gardening services in the Galle district.
The first one was well-known for granite pavings, so he provided us with a design and an estimate incorporating granite elements, plants, and grass. Then we spoke to someone who specializes in interlocking, and they also gave us a design and quotation. We were able to further improve our design after consulting with them. So, in the end, we had three options, including our own.
Stay tuned to find out which one we chose!