Obelisk*

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Early in the spring, we decided on a design of obelisk we wanted.  But we couldn't find one like that anywhere, so we bought some steel, cut it to length and bent it up.  Then my plans for welding rather got put on hold but this week Peter kindly did the business for us.  Here's the bits and the jig (of course there was a jig - I'm a professional...) and below work in progress

 Here is a finished article more or less in situ:




Below is the first of two dumpy bags of soil being delivered for the gabion rectification work after the gabion fill settled leaving airholes below the plantings.  You can see in the pic that all the plants that were along the top of the gabions are temporarily on their hols elsewhere while the builders remove the landscape material from above the mesh and top up the holes below with soil - Monday's job along with some internal draught exclusion work.