Glad you found an excellent gardening company and they have done a good job. Unless you keep having a gardener coming to maintain the garden, a few years later, more hard works like weeding, feeding, trimming and de-bugging, let along the weekly mowing. For some, these are part of the fun having a garden, so enjoy and be active. Also, children will learn a lot through the life cycles of planting, knowledges and naming of plants...etc.
Your backyard looks fantastic, CoCo哥! Thanks so much for sharing. This gives the HK immigrants some estimations on the cost for yard work in UK. Yes, it is expensive, but "money well spend"! Hope that all is well with you all, love seeing Margaret. She is super adorable! Take care!🙂
In USA, Canada, we use underground sprinkler system which also has sensor to not irrigate when raining. And can be wifi controlled in your cell eg when traveling. Should have done that before putting down the turf. But, can add it next year after the turf has matured. Many people do do it as an add on when they purchase a house with a garden.
Brother Coco, I love your new backyard. If you have time, I hope you can bring Margaret to the British Museum for the Chinese exhibition. I wish so badly to see it, but we are in Vancouver. Cheers!!