New front yard!

    After my " Disaster" post I thought I would show my faithful readers the part of our property that looks really good now! The first several photos show what our front yard looked like before. This all came about because we realized how much we liked to sit in the front and how private it was....so Dave suggested making this our entertaining area. Brilliant! We had a landscape architect come and draw us a plan based on how we wanted to use the area. There was a brief moment of insanity when Dave thought we could do this project ourselves. After watching all that went into the project, we realized that would have been a bad plan! We did end up doing most of the planting ourselves which helped keep the cost down.

The demo work began....

Lots of trenches for drainage, electrical, gas.

Forms to delineate the walk way and patio

Start of the fire pit

Looking good.

Flagstone fire pit

Some of the plants.

Planting 3 new queen palms

Lining up the plants.

We painted the courtyard area

The three guys who did all that work.

The new look!

Princess flower- one of the 83 plants that we planted!

Hibiscus

Canna lillies

Azaelas

Gardenias

Scaveola