An olive tree planted in a circular bed

Before Christmas we worked on a rural village garden in idyllic setting with a small stream running through it. It was nice working to the sound of running water. The job involved bringing in 20 tonnes of quarried stone to build one large planter 4 metre in diameter around an olive tree and an adjacent wall with a three cheek ends. The olive was apparently brought in containerised from Spain.

two types of copes used together make an interesting contrast

close-up of the olive planter filled with compost

The copes (i.e. the top stones) of the circular planter are flat with and at the right height to serve as a seating area. These copers required quite a bit of working in order to get an inner and outer curved edge but it is a nice clean effect overall. The wall itself kept the regional West-Riding style of coping which had to be chiselled to shape.