For any of you who watch BBC Prime , you know they broadcast these wonderful DIY programmes in which you can change the look of your room or garden in 48 hours. Well, having taken eight years to establish my dream garden in South Africa - I was give a patch no bigger than my swimming pool in SA in my new villa in Dubai as a garden. So I put all the hours of watching Alan Titmarsh and co in designing a new garden... 
Judge for yourself if I was successful - it took two days. There is still bed planting beneath the trees to take place but the basic garden is here in all its glory. 
So here is the before pic:


And here is the garden landscaped...