2008 Now it was finally time to do something about the two small flower beds on the north side. Here is the lawn dug away and you can imagine how it will look like ... I think these bricks is so nice. They are easy to work with because no mortar is needed. It is just to dig out a little beneath and fill in with sand. Then you only have to put them on line. I use a rubber mallet to hammer them to the right height. Here I am putting small slabs of stone on the outside. That will prevent the grass to grow into the wall and it should be easier to run with the mower. This is how it became after planting. Part of what grew here before has moved back, but not the ferns. I had so many young perennial plants in small pots that needed somewhere to grow. At last I had a room for them. Here I have placed the bird bath I casted in concrete. I had long meant to try to cast using rhubarb leaves and now finally got it. A bird bath and three flat stones to have in the flower bed. A little closer look. The mushrooms are not real ones. Here is the large flat rhubarb leaf. Finally, I have tested to cast pots of hypertufa (sand, peat, cement and water). As the mold, I used buckets of different sizes and ordinary cardboard boxes. It was a little difficult to get the pots out of the buckets. I rounded the edges using a flat stone. To cast in concrete and hypertufa is fun. I will probably want to do that more times. For next summer I will probably acquire a concrete-mixer for it was a hard job to mix by hand.