Front yard makeover project - ie: how we spent our stimulus
May 9, 2020 18:27:56 GMT -5
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Post by Tommy on May 9, 2020 18:27:56 GMT -5
So we went full frontal on the house over the past few weeks. It's been kind of stuck in a state of indecision and limbo for over two years since we ripped out a nasty 8 foot tall wall of hedge that had completely taken over the front yard area and blocked off the front to where you couldn't stand at the front door and see the street.
2015 - after having hauled home a dozen or so rock crates from the Stoney Creek area we decided to fill the street side of the monster hedge with ... jasper and quartz of course. It looked terrible and since we weren't living at the house the weeds pretty much had their way with us. I'm still digging those stupid rocks out of the ground here haha. Some of them even find their way back into my lapidary rock crates on the side of the house but that's another story.
Our first serious attempt at doing something different came soon after we started moving here in Dec 2018. We had collected a bunch of large landscape rocks with a gorgeous desert varnish that we hauled out of the Nevada desert knowing we wanted to do something with them at the Napa house... The one Roxy is stepping on weighs probably 300lbs - both of us together can't lift it but by golly we can roll it! haha
Sadly, it looked pretty crappy and definitely lacked focus and never went anywhere. Where would someone go with something like this? exactly.
Google street view still sums up our efforts pathetically...
Enter 2020 and the Corona virus shut down we decided to have a complete go at it starting with the long-desired new fence between us and neighbor. I posted these a couple weeks ago in the "day in photos" thread.
Next I built two planter boxes from the leftover pressure treated wood and fence boards from the fence project. We moved some of our favorite succulents into them.
Then came the wall.. for the last ten days or so we've been working our butts off on retaining wall and decomposed granite walk ways and proudly-displayed Nevada desert rocks that nearly killed us getting them in (and out) of the truck. It turned out SO good we are pretty proud of it. We can't quit going out and looking at it haha. The tree is a Palo Verde var. Desert Museum. We had the location prepared already and we drove to a nursery about an hour away to pick it out. We hope it loves it here and lives ... we are cautiously optimistic.
Thanks for looking!
2015 - after having hauled home a dozen or so rock crates from the Stoney Creek area we decided to fill the street side of the monster hedge with ... jasper and quartz of course. It looked terrible and since we weren't living at the house the weeds pretty much had their way with us. I'm still digging those stupid rocks out of the ground here haha. Some of them even find their way back into my lapidary rock crates on the side of the house but that's another story.
Our first serious attempt at doing something different came soon after we started moving here in Dec 2018. We had collected a bunch of large landscape rocks with a gorgeous desert varnish that we hauled out of the Nevada desert knowing we wanted to do something with them at the Napa house... The one Roxy is stepping on weighs probably 300lbs - both of us together can't lift it but by golly we can roll it! haha
Sadly, it looked pretty crappy and definitely lacked focus and never went anywhere. Where would someone go with something like this? exactly.
Google street view still sums up our efforts pathetically...
Enter 2020 and the Corona virus shut down we decided to have a complete go at it starting with the long-desired new fence between us and neighbor. I posted these a couple weeks ago in the "day in photos" thread.
Next I built two planter boxes from the leftover pressure treated wood and fence boards from the fence project. We moved some of our favorite succulents into them.
Then came the wall.. for the last ten days or so we've been working our butts off on retaining wall and decomposed granite walk ways and proudly-displayed Nevada desert rocks that nearly killed us getting them in (and out) of the truck. It turned out SO good we are pretty proud of it. We can't quit going out and looking at it haha. The tree is a Palo Verde var. Desert Museum. We had the location prepared already and we drove to a nursery about an hour away to pick it out. We hope it loves it here and lives ... we are cautiously optimistic.
Thanks for looking!