The Landscape gardening's finished

Earlier I mentioned that we'd had the front garden remodelled, with a new planter between our garden and the neighbours'.

Well, It's bigger than we had anticipated, and should have been the height of the fence shown in the second picture, but the guy had cut and laid the stones before I realised, and I didn't have the heart to get him to take off a course. I couldn't afford to either: those stones are expensive, and he might not have been able to use them elsewhere!

It's so thick because it's double skinned (breeze blocks on the inside); needed because of the weight of the soil: there's a good couple of tons of topsoil in there!
Anyway; the back's finished as well now, with a nice big base for a nice big new shed, and the pond's been re-built. The landscape gardner says they saw about 200 frogs escaping from underneath the pond liner. I'll get some photos of the pond once it emerges from the snow: it looks fabulous. I should get some decent pictures with my nice new 8.1 mega-pixel phone camera when it comes.