For me this was a success story. Its part of the zero budget garden idea. I had a problem with design in the back yard, there was an old cracked concrete slab surrounding the house (probably from 1940's knowing this house's vintage) and then there was brick paving surrounding the pond, on a slightly higher level. So I made a small step with brick sized salvaged cobble stones, and then dug out and flattened a half circle and paved it with broken bits of concrete I hauled out of the dumpsters at the local refuse collection depot. I found some nice thick, textured bits which must have been for a slab rather than wall plaster. Eric Ngara, who works with my husband on his worm farm, laid them for me because I found he just had such a good eye, he even inserted tiny slightly different coloured flat pieces in the cracks and hammered them down, which really looks great. The grey concrete chunks allowed the cracked concrete slab to blend in with the garden paving, and then the smaller pieces leading up to the slight step lead into the brick paving in terms of size, if not colour and it all now looks like I planned it that way, rather than being a 'problem'. After several months the paving looks like it has always been there. Recycled materials have this wonderful way (as did the bricks in the front garden which were also salvaged from the dumpsters) of looking instantly aged as if they have been in place for decades.
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