Upcoming Winter Projects-

Top photo is a pretty large job for me-in the Chastain Park area. It will involve tree removal, a 10 station irrigation system and new front landscaping (Plants & Sod). The back will get some sod, stepping stones and a nice cleanup. The bottom photo is a house in Smyrna-they have grown a bit tired of their original front landscaping and I will be ripping out all of the existing plants and installing all new plants -extending a bed-adding some stepping stones and a nice container for the front entrance.

Smyrna-Cooper Oaks

This was a pretty cool job-I like working with stone. I did some edging of some back beds with Tennessee Ruble milled stone and some flagstone steps laid over jute mat in a problem area. Also addressed some drainage issues and did some irrigation realignment (moving heads-checking for coverage) while I was out.

Little 5 Points-Irrigation

Just getting started on this irrigation install. If you have followed my blog, you have seen this house before. I have done a good bit of planting here over the last two years. This is an intensely planted yard and the homeowners both travel a good bit...the plants started to suffer this past summer and we decided that it was time for a irrigation system that could water consistently and protect their investment. Stay tuned...

Peachtree Corners-High Shoals

Just completed this project yesterday. Homeowners wanted some beds to plant annuals/bulbs, a back lawn area, some stone edging and just a general cleanup of the area directly behind the house. I brought in 7 yards of native soil mixed 50%-50% with a manufactured planting mix to create the beds..used thin capstone to edge the beds around the sidewalk & deck and a collection of native stone (large pieces) to edge the newly created beds. For the new lawn area I planted "Palisades" Zoysia sod.

Briarlake-Planting

Time to catch up the old blog, I think. This is a recently completed project that started out with some hardscape work...a low stone wall and gravel "lawn". I included some before shots to show the vegetation that had to be eliminated, etc. I planted a really nice "Viridis" Japanese Maple, Clethra, Endless Summer Hydrangea and used Cephalotaxus "Creeping Plum Yew" as the plant to eventually cover the slope.

House Proud Project - West End

I did this small but fairly complicated job for House Proud....a non - profit organization that uses grant money to do home repairs for low income families. The house was built in 1955, and according to the current homeowner the front of the house has "sunk" approx. 2' since they moved into the house in 1967. This created a major problem as surface water now collects against the front of the house and, during periods of heavy rain, floods the basement. There was no way to collect the water and disperse it elsewhere via gravity.... so I built a masonry catch basin in the lowest area of the front, installed a 3600 gph pump, and piped the outlet around (uphill) into the back yard. Tested it out today and it works great.

N. Druid Hills/Hillside (Completed)

Worked on this job in between rain storms this week and completed it today. A rotten, crumbling Crosstie wall had to be demolished and replaced. Liriope was transplanted from the existing bed to create a new bed where Magnolia roots seem to hamper the growth of any grass. Finally, Pansies were installed in a bed created around the mailbox.

Briarlake-Backyard Hardscape

A fun project here-I love working with stone. This is a 2 phase job that started with the construction of a dry stack capstone wall approx. 65' x 18". Only the cap run was mortared, as we wanted both the look of the dry stack and the permeability for drainage. A problem grass area was then converted to a river gravel "patio" that meets up with a dry creek bed I installed last year. Planting on the bank above the wall will take place in the next couple of weeks (you can see all the ivy/weeds have been sprayed and removed), along with some repair stone work to the old stone walkway and steps.

Brookhaven-North Druid Hills

Got an early start on this job-Homeowner needs beds defined and pine straw put out in advance of some overseeding being done by their lawn care company. The remainder of the job, which includes cross tie replacement, transplanting some ground cover, and flower installation should take place next week.

Lawrenceville-Dunhill Completed

This was a project to take all the surface water produced by (7) downspouts and pipe it all to empty onto the street. Concrete removal and re-pouring was necessary-and approx 300' of 4" drain line was installed.

Lawrenceville-Dunhill

This is a drainage project started today. All the downspouts on the house will be piped into two separate systems that will ultimately empty onto the street through the curb. In order to do this I have to get pipe under the sidewalk and to the street. I hired A1 Concrete Cutting to come out today and cut two sections of sidewalk and a section of the patio so they can be removed. When all the pipe has been installed I will re-pour the sidewalk sections and repair the patio.