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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Japanese Maple Planter Construction



The top photo shows the general idea of the first course of brick on the gravel base. I did not have enough of these whole bricks to lay two courses. I replaced the whole bricks of the first course on the patio side with half bricks. They are below the grade and not visible. With the bricks I took from there, and bricks I took from the fig tree planter I had enough to do two courses with one full brick left over.

The middle photo is my pile of detritus, from which I took enough to back fill next to the brick to the top of the first course. The bottom photo shows the finished two course wall and detritus back fill.

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