Jay and his landscaping crew were back yesterday continuing to work their way around the the house creating and filling the new planting beds. The first three photos show some of the new features added to the front side of the house. In the first we see the thin ribbon of plastic edging winding across the front porch and the buckets of new shrubs waiting to be placed at the far end.
The next photo shows Sam inspecting the trench dug along the West side of the new driveway where a PVC pipe will drain the gutters on the front corner of the house into the front yard. The next photo shows the dry river-bed we have decided to install along the front edge of the porch. We decided to eliminate the stairs on the front of the porch and the gutter above after experiencing a “real” Minnesota winter with our new standing seam roof. The prodigious pile of snow and ice that accumulated at the front stairs as well as the gutter being nearly torn from the roof convinced us to pursue a different path to our front door. I think that an under appreciated benefit of this change will be experiencing a nice summer rain complete with water running off the hot tin roof into the river bed from the comfort of our screen porch!
The Last two photos show some of the progress Jan and his guys made in and around the back breezeway entrance. The first shows the new plantings along the top of the modular block wall and back side of the garage as well as the dry river bed along the limestone path.
The last photo shows these new features from the back wall of the house. Here we see the front edge of the new paver patio and limestone path with the new plantings running along the top of the modular wall. The beginnings of our “high tech” dog run can be seen at the right hand side of the photo. Here Jay has installed rock in the dry river-bed that runs across the front edge of the dog run. Once the fencing is installed he will add the rubber membrane, plastic decking and K9 grass.
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