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.