As the JLM landscaping crew wraps up this phase of their work at the “L” Shaped House it seems like a wrap up blog posting is in order as well. The first photo shows the front walkway, and porch from the middle of the paver driveway after Jay and his crew finished moving plants and adding mulch. The paver walkway will become the main entry to the “L” Shaped House as Paul completes the stairs, railings, and decking on the front porch. The paver surfaces, landscaping, and plantings are all coming together very nicely.
The next photo shows the front walkway from the end of the porch looking out toward the driveway. Here we can see the “meandering” sidewalk, repositioned plants, and white accent stripe as the pavers spill into the sidewalk from the driveway.
The third photo shows the paver sidewalk and front porch from the opposite side of the driveway. Here we can see the straight white stripe and “interlocking” edge running along the driveway in the foreground with the same accent stones curving into the walkway to the front porch across the way. The next photo shows the East edge of the driveway after Jay and his crew “feathered” the fill and topsoil all around the driveway surface. The site looks great after the clean up, backfilling, and new mulch.
The next three photos show some of the details Jay and his crew finished up late yesterday afternoon. First they “pitched” the grading under the back breezeway deck, re-set the paver edging, and installed a polyethylene barrier covered with river rock to prevent from pooling under the deck. All three of the decks at the “L” Shaped House get this same treatment.
They also terminated downspouts and installed leaf guards on all of the PVC gutter drains. The two photos here show the downspout at the back corner of the upper patio. Jay decided to fill a short section of the area inside the upper wall with river rock to channel water away from the foundation wall and hopefully prevent mulch from washing away during big rains. The system of gutter drains here and along the front of the garage have been working great even as we have endured this unusually wet summer.
Jay also put some finishing touches on the water feature and garden area at the West end of the front porch. Jay’s guys added some additional plants and small rocks selected by Matt Wolf around the base of the bubbling rock and added another layer of shredded hardwood mulch throughout the garden area. The plantings and landscape features are making this front corner of the house a very nice place!
A switch controlling the pump in the bubbling rock water feature will be located on the wall in the screen porch making it easy to turn the fountain on and off from inside the house. We hope the flowing water and plants attract a wide variety of birds to this area.
A video of the bubbling rock in its current form.
The last photo shows the two pallets of left over pavers from the job. The JLM folks plan to store them away at their yard in Shakopee in case we need a few replacement stones.
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