Garden update

On Queen's Birthday Monday we head out to Midway soil & gravel to see what they can offer. We choose the gravel. They ask us when we want it. We say, when can they deliver. They say, "Now?" Having already ascertained that there was a non-trivial delivery fee, I ask if they could deliver soil at the same time. No problems.
So we bolt back to Albert Park, scoff lunch and lay tarps in the lane outside the garage in time to receive half a cubic metre of gravel, same of soil. The piles look dauntingly large, and there isn't that much daylight in an afternoon these days. But despite Peter's anxieties, we manage to get it all barrowed into the garden or stored in containers before dark.
In the next week or so we progressively distribute it, buy plants and plant them. Now the garden looks like this (note the rose - the first rose of winter?):