Planter is Completed
The final stage of the construction of the planter is shown below

Here is the top (right hand side of Planter) showing the final Construction in prrogress you will that the narrow lower planter is now filled with Earth.











Here you can see the front wall completed it only needs a couple of bags 750KG each of Soil to be aded to fill up the planter

Here is the almost finished construction (still some lights to fit and connect)

these two photos below show the planter once the soili was delivered -> we even have som plants!

It is a good time to thank Bob and Liam for all the work that went into this last part of the project - the design sort of evolved during the Month and we are pleased with the end result.



I hope that in 2012 the very last technical point of construction - fitting and wiring the lights will be completed and then the chief gardner will plant up the main planter in April so after january we will have to wait to see the final result of the planter fitted out with all sorts of different plants
I wishh my readers (I suspect not so many a happy new year in 2012

Christmas Update
At last after wizzing around Europe I have found time to show you  what has been happpening in December. 

Here you see some of the foundations  laid
andbelow the start of the construction of the front wall, which will also be the front wall of the planter

Constructing the planter & wall

Final bit of Foundation
The lat jof of this project is to build a small wall along the front of the garden and construct a planter to add some plants . because the ground ha sbeen disturbed so much by the original excavation it was necessary to let it settle for a 2-3 weeks . as we neareed the end of the september Bob returned with his digger to build the foundations for the wall and planters

Here you see the front excavated and some of the shuttering in place ready for the foundations In the picture below you see the end of this process with the concrete just poured into the shuttering.

Here you see the foundation for the front wall and the planter in place once these are hard we can start finally to begin the last walls  of the project

The start of the front wall which will step its way up the hill.
We decided to have a steped wall as this will follow the steps in the existing wall that we have built.

Lets fix the lights

So here is the unlikely startting point for adding the lights to the wall - here you see the cable we laid behind the wall coming through the concrete reinforced breeze block waiting for the light to be fitted here i will explain waht you need to do to fit the lights - in all I fitted 9 lights around the wall , these will be controlled by a sensor which will switch them on when it gets dark but is clever enough to switch them off between midnight and a couple of hours before dawn- this is done by a clever light sensor _ i will explain mor about this when we conect up the lights to the supply .

here is the somewhat large fixing block (around 80mm deeep) with two holse predrilled.
using a wooden template I bored teo 8mm diameter holes and inserted the green rawplugs and then screwing the wooden block to the wall - if necesssary this was done several times so that the light fitting ended flush with the wall - not as easy as it looks
the light itself consists of a plastic outer a metal back and a glass front there is of course a light and a reflector but these are fitted after the light is wired

The lights were made by Phillips and are called "Massive" dont ask me why you will see the three pieces that are in the box seperated ready for fitting.





The first Job is tofix the plastic box to the wooden block so that the edge of the plastic box is in line with the brickwork - later on we will fill in the small gap betwen the plastic box and the wall






Here you see we have filled the gaps we had with Mortar ready to screw on the back and finally fit the front

So here is the light finally fitted waiting fro the final wiring of the light to be done by the electrician. once it has been wired in the reflector plate will hide the wires and we fit the low energy bulb.

Lastly we will then fit the sensor device and conect all the lights to the mains supply