Water feature
Fantastic plantings accent the front yard border and drainage garden.
The backyard includes a natural granite walkway leading past a split falls water feature leading to dining area.
Project type: Residential
Services provided: Landscape designs, materials purchasing, plant sales, plant layout, general contracting, facilitation, customer consulting, billing, maintenance, follow-up
Year: 2009
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- Creative drainage capturing water and directing its flow.
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- This is the first phase with construction of a swale that will redirect the water drainage and take it off the property. Notice the foot bridge that leads to you to the beginning of a woodland path.
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- Completed planting of the swale area created for drainage. Becomes a beautiful border full of color and texture.
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- Shows existing backyard and how it relates to the structure.
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- Existing backyard including the lower steps that were redone to incorporate new landscape plans.
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- Heavy machinery used to place boulders for the water feature.
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- Cleaned and reused homeowners clay pavers and enlarged the patio by integrating flagstone into the border.
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- Flagstone border and newly planted tamaracks.
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- Area was accented with native evergreens and grasses.
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- Finished flagstone pathway leading to the patio form the lower step area.
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- Flagstone pathway that leads to the large dining patio.
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- Completed water feature which included several different water feeds, several divisions in the stream with multiple falls.
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- Shows how we created the granite path that leads you to the staircase along the water feature. Creative and artistic boulder placement.
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- Color rendering of patio and path by Susan Murphy-Jones
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- Original concepts by Susan Murphy-Jones
