Concreting advice pls

No I haven't but will be doing it in my garden.
There are heaps of YouTube videos.
I can't see it being too hard as once it's trained ongoing pruning would be like anything else. The do say that trees fruit better and give better yield like this because the channel their energy to a less useless branches.

Depending on orientation they are the best option because they can let northern sun in winter and put the likes of Lemon, Orange on western sides.

But yes deciduous will only provide privacy in summer unless the fence is high enough

Lillypilly drop berries

bummer, thanks for the heads up.
Any other options

We have kicked out our landscaper. Now plan is to go with DIY.

But before moving on to that phase, what I noticed puddles in last two days rain.

Do we need to address drainage for this first? Our landscaper told me not worry about it last time. But it doesn't look right to me. I would prefer to get it done properly instead of a rush job now which will create troubles later on.

Here is my list of question:

1. Do we need drainage in this area or just put top soil, level and go turf?

2. If drainage required, what kind of drainage would go here under grass? I.e. Agi drains with mats over them?

3. There is one storm water point towards other end of backyard (can be seen in pics). Are we allowed to connect drain to that pipe?

4. Who should conduct this work? Licensed plumber or landscaper? I'm not sure if plumbers like to dig trenches in dirt or not.


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This is opposite side. It's empty block and on same level as ours. This water you can in photo didn't flow from neighbor's land. It's just pooling here after every mid to heavy rain. Now I don't know if its soil type holding up water like this?

Plan is changing to switch to natural turf, as it would be DIY. I have done natural turf in past but not experience with artificial turf.

There would be about 2 -3 inches top soil and then turf on top.

Here is a latest photo of side of the house.

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Thanks Lilana. No more water pooling after I hand dig whole backyard and added top soil. All water is going down.