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Share, Please: Pictures of Your Garden
by compound complex 45 Replies latest jw friends
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scratchme1010
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millie210
Wonderful pictures everyone.
jwleaks, how did you manage that sail? That is gorgeous!
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lusitano o tuga
beautiful garden , sir!
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lusitano o tuga
my garden
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Esse quam videri
My guess, early 1950's. Cute kid. Innocence. -
jwleaks
millie210 - jwleaks, how did you manage that sail? That is gorgeous!
In 2009 the local roads department were replacing old timber highway double-sign posts with steel posts. I salvaged as many posts as I could then cut off the rotten section (which is the part that was buried in the ground), paint stripped them, and then gave them a going over with an electric planer and belt sander. Several coats of wood sealer later I concreted the posts in the pool area and attached the shade sail. The cut out features of the posts, i.e. the two round holes and cut line between them, were part of the original posts and were at the height of a car fender and were designed to break the post at the ground level in an accident. I flipped the posts upside and made the safety feature a pool post feature.
The sail is attached to the posts by chain and eyelet with a tensioner between them to take up the slack of the sail. Each post has a different height where the sail is attached thereby creating an angled sail and giving tension. The below picture is the lowest point of the sail / post and is towards the late afternoon sun during summer. The pool is 12 meters in length and is salt chlorinated with a reverse polarity setup. I have a solar heating system for the pool on my shed roof which measures a full 9 meters x 6 meters in size.
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jwleaks
I bought a commercial grade shade sail, 5.4m x 5.4m, with 95% UV block which is very important in Australia if you are going to swim under it. The 15 year warrantly is great as well. It was well worth the extra cost.This is the one I bought in stone colour:
http://www.coolaroo.com/product/commercial-grade-square-shade-sail
I had to get a building permit for the posts but included this among other building works I did at home at the same time.
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compound complex
Thanks, everyone, for participating. As we get into warmer weather, please post more!
Jupiter's Beard, foreground; redbud, background.
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nancy drew
A secret garden's what they say whenever one is tucked away
behind a wall beside a track as if someone was coming back
to see the fruits that now appear like birds who visit every year
the garden has a kitty cat who's made the place his habitat
a favorite place to stop and rest the garden's very special guest
others fly in for a spell attracted by it's lovely smell
alone it sits beside the track but friends are always coming back
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compound complex
Hi, Nancy:
I would love to be a winged sprite,
to come and perch in bower of night . . .
Secret Garden is the place for me,
Please let me in and I'll stay for free.
THANK YOU!