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We wanted a natural setting for our walkway from the deck to the yard. Something simple,
yet nice and inviting, so we decided on Canadian flagstone and cover the
remaining areas with cedar mulch to garden in. No formal borders to edge, just plant and go!
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This time we don't have any "during" pics, it all happened so fast!
We ordered 2 tons of flagstone, 4 yards of slag sand and 7 yards of mulch for the whole project.
We made a few trips in Mark's dump trailer, but we still had to haul it to
the backyard in a wheelbarrow. It took a long day to finish this side,
I did hear something about we want a pond?
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Carol and I wanted a pond. We settled for a small
water feature, due to the size of the area. We buried a plastic
tub and piled rocks on top. A small pump runs water down over the
face of the rocks, then back into the tub.
The gentle trickle sounds nice in the quiet evenings.
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This is the view from our bay
window. It's a great view with all of Carol's flowers and birds at the feeders.
(Mike's tomatoes are in the background)
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The first side turned out pretty good, so we did a bit on the other side of the pool too!
A simpler design with no water (yet) We went around the pool, and mulched everything in sight!
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Carol found all kinds of room to plant now! We have about every kind of plant known
to man...oops woman!
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Carol found a trellis design she really liked, they where $240 each, and we would need two of them.
We built our own for about $40. They're just cedar 2x2's and 1/2" copper pipe, with copper wire
wrapped around the joints.
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Later that year when things are growing well!
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The path is growing well.
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All of the plants and animals love the water feature.
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This is another of Carol's ideas, we talked about it for some time, but I thought
she was kidding! Well, one day in May of 2003, we (she) decided it was time to begin the backyard
landscaping. We finished the deck project the year before, and
now it's time to move some dirt!! We looked at plenty of home magazines and garden books searching
for that perfect look that would fit our image, rustic, curvy, casual, (and cheap).
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