This is my favorite landscape job that we did this past summer. When we started, there was the concrete slab with the hot tub, the fire pit, and several huge (ugly) evergreens around the fire pit/slab area.
The pink flowers above are dwarf crape myrtles. I just discovered and started using these flowers this year. They have a very pretty flower. The bottom right yellow leaf is a golden privet.This is the fire pit that was converted to a flower bed. I wasn’t really thrilled about leaving the pit, but I went back latter in the summer to do some other work for the customer, and I found that the “trailers” that I planted were water falling over the edges and sweet potato vine was crawling out onto the patio. I should have gotten a picture of that. It was awesome.
To the left is the “fall” corner of the display. In the fall, the fountain grass would turn bronze, the spireas turn red, yellow, and orange. The berry magic hollies are evergreens that produce red berries for the birds. The green and white leafed (upper middle) is a variegated dogwood. The branches turn red for fall and winter color. The barberry stays the burgundy color into the early winter.
The green leafed plant is a Texas flowering quince. In the spring, the stems has little red flowers. Around it is many perennials. White: shasta daisy. Dark pink: phlox. Middle right little white flowers: whirling butterfly.
The curbing going around the patio pavers is a concrete curbing. This one is buff colored. It’s very nice because it has a high back to hold in your mulch in the landscape and the grass grows up to the low front. It looks sharp when the grass is grown in around it.
Knock out roses are added throughout the landscape. Mocha brown mulch was used. The stepping stones are man-made, but you can not tell it.
The patio pavers that were used are a venetian stone.Here are two green tower boxwoods on each side of the stepping stones.
The little grass with purple flowers are liropes.
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