Mom's bought a house here locally, and is slowly moving into it. As you can see below, the landscape is pretty sparse. That's where my brother (the horticulturist and irrigation expert) and I come in.
Landscape plan in place, we ordered five trees, for use in the front and rear of the house. They were delivered last Friday.
Our resident design consultant approved of the selections - three Muscogee crepe myrtles and two October Glory maples.
We started in the back yard. The ground was MUCH harder than originally thought. It took virtually all day to plant the first three. Sure was nice to sit back on the porch and admire our work Saturday evening.
There were a couple of snags in the front yard Sunday. While digging where apparently the construction crew dumped their excess concrete, we found a section of the irrigation system. The system was off, so this was more of a nuisance than anything. A quick repair, and we were back in business. Then, we found the main line for the system. More repairs...
It's now late Sunday afternoon, and finally done. This is the crepe myrtle by the front porch.
Another view of the front of the house, with the other crepe myrtle out front. Welcome to Suburbia!
Here's the trees in the back yard. Forground is the third crepe myrtle, with one of the maples at the corner of the property.
See all those hoses in the pictures? They lead back here, to a temporary tree irrigation system designed on the fly by our resident landscape irrigation architect while standing in the garden center of our local Lowe's. Normally, he'd charge someone thousands of dollars for this idea...
As you can imagine, we're pretty tired. But it looks great, and is the largest part of the landscape makeover to come. Next - overhauling the irrigation system!
