Redwood Place

This was one of our first projects, and we have lovingly maintained the house with its delightful homeowners. As an interesting note, they had sold their home in NJ, and moved up to our area because their NJ house had too much landscaping to take care of!

We started by clearing the back yard. We took it back to this. The hillside is a compound slope. Not great for entertaining, but certainly a blank palette It was severely overgrown, and just completely unusable. We formulated a design based on arcs.

We elected to keep the Rhododendron and the Mountain laurel, and a couple of small trees. As anchor points to the beds.

Next we went plant shopping. Its such fun. We meet the homeowners at our growers, and several associated nurseries and pick out plants for the project. As this one was after Labor Day, we got all the plants at 75% off!

Next we constructed the arc shaped beds, planted our choices, and then began to mulch to hold the moisture in.

Not to be neglected, behind the barn got treated to a mulch job. More to keep the weeds down this area becomes very unruly if not mulched. Here is one of the property owners helping us spread.

I will say those big grasses look nice especially when mulched around.

Front East corner. Here the customer can experiment with potted plants that will eventually move to a permanent home and replaced. That way we know what will thrive in the light and soil conditions.

The owners of the property did have an issue that some people share, broad shoulders and narrow roads. Which caused people to park and drive on their lawn. Some installation of 3B made it less desirable to drive and park on. 3B is not easy to handle. It does not shovel, push, or rake. Bur people don’t like driving on it, and it is not nice to walk on. Serves as a great barrier.