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Re-landscaping our front and back yards |
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Summer 2007 |
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Paul and I decided to re-landscape our
front and back yards. We decided to do this after many plants and trees in
our yards died from the coldest frost we got back in January. So, we
called up Creative Environments
and asked someone to sit down with us to design our yards from scratch (well,
leaving in our Queen Palms, some
Bob Sod and
the pool). Below are pictures of what we came up with for a design and
pictures of the demo'ing of our yards. We think it's going to turn out
beautiful and are excited to see it completed! |
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The plan we came up with...
all of the plants are new, we'll have huge boulders put in and a pavered
sidewalk, back patio and BBQ area |
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Pictures of the back yard (before) |
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Pictures of the front yard (before) |
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We are jack hammering out the concrete back patio so that
we can have pavers put in |
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After the demo...it's all gone! |
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The BBQ area before |
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The north grass area before. We plan to make our
grass areas bigger too. |
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Jared and Paul built up a "deck" until our patio is
finished. Such cute little engineers :) |
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The finished "deck." Hey, we even have a patio table
to sit and relax on. |
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7/27/07 - We got a big load of concrete pavers dropped off
this morning |
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That's a lot of pavers! |
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A close up of some of the pavers |
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Hi Jared |
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We got a load for the paver base, or the dirt and sand that
will go under the pavers |
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8/3/07 - Our pavers are gone but now we have huge boulders
in their place |
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Close up of the boulders We think they are
granite boulders?? There are 500lb. and 750lb. boulders. |
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Pictures of the the landscaping project, in progress.
Our pavered sidewalk is in! Yay! |
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The side walk down the side of our home |
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8/2/07 & 8/3/07 - We got some loads for our plantings |
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And trees |
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This is the Sago Palm that Paul wanted :) |
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The south grass, in progress. We'll have two
sidewalks going to the grass area. |
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The patio is in! |
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Another view of the patio. They did a great job on
the pavers!! |
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The BBQ area, in progress |
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8/17/07 - We're done! Our landscaping is complete! |
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We also landscaped the street side area, with new trees and
bushes. |
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The entry |
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Paul's Sago Palm ;) |
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The new sidewalk |
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The sidewalk along the side of the house.
No more trudging through all of the rocks! Yay! |
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The south side grass area.
The patched in Bob Sod is already lush and green! |
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The sidewalk going to the new pavered patio! |
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We landscaped the area by the pool too, with new bushes and
some big boulders |
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The BBQ area completed!
We have a natural gas line running from the house to the BBQ area
for Paul's future upgrade to a natural gas grill. |
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We added a tree and some vines to the north side.
That way we have something nice to look at out our stairwell window and Jared's
room :) |
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Like this... |
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The Bird of Paradise tree at night.
We added some up-lighting to it. Can't wait until it grows and fills up
the space! |
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A last look at the patio.
We LOVE the way the landscaping turned out!! |
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