The best start to My Garden Makeover Blog shall be like the Mary Poppins song...let's start at the very beginning ...a very good place to be.
When we purchased our current property back in 2007, both my husband Jim and I were over-joyed at the endless possibilities of a 400 foot backyard. Our previous home, though quite comfortable, left nothing more to the imagination. We had completely renovated the inside and and the outside ...take a look for yourself. http://www.my-gardening-and-landscaping-makeover.com/garden-design.html
We built a pool into a slope (see the above image), built a cedar enclosure for the hot tub, built a barbecue cedar gazebo, installed interlocking stone patio and not to mention the creation of countless gardens growing well over 200 different perennials. Oh yes, I can't forget to add the pond and mini waterfall.Within the 8 year span of completing the above projects, we knew that at some point the 'landscaping itch' was going to affect us and we would need to scratch. Indeed we did.
We found an incredible property with a reasonable blank canvas. Here our imaginations could go wild ...so to speak.
Jim could finally create his Caribbean Oasis. We were never really the summer cottage types. The thought of traveling (tired from a weeks work) so many hours on a Friday night, only to be repeated again so soon on a Sunday night (tired just thinking of the weeks work ahead) had no appeal to us.
The first summer we walked, talked and measured. Then came the demolition of the existing garden structure, an arbor, and small perennial garden.
Watch out ...next comes the digging...
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