On November 11th our landscape contractor showed up to begin work on the transformation of our back yard.
These are the "before" photos
We let things get overgrown and out of hand in some areas
The grass has been ravaged by voracious killer rabbits
Our ground cover plants met the same fate
The ongoing drought made us decide to go with a small bocce court instead of grass and more drought-tolerant plants in the rest of the yard
Good-bye grass
Good-bye old ugly plants
Hello worker dudes in the back yard
Out with the old! (Except for me!)
They made quick work of the demo
Dueling wheel barrows
We took out the magnolia next to the house
We took out a lot of stuff
We moved the concrete pavers. (By "we" I mean "they")
We took out dirt
We pounded stakes. We measured stuff.
We replaced the old bender board with pavers
We did use the old bender board for a form
We added road base and DG. We added irrigation and drainage.
We left a spot for our bench wall
We smoothed out the DG
We made a mess!
We made a mess looking the other direction
We started to build the bench wall
We had to get it just right
We added pavers and walk way pavers
We added totem poles!
Just kidding. We call it an "arbor".
The arbor
Here we are working hard to get things finished up. Again, by "we" I mean "they".
The finished product!
It took a while, but we like the results
We need to add more lighting
And wait for the new plants to fill out
And practice our bocce ball or boule or petanque or whatever we use our new court for
So as the sun sets on our latest project...
it's time for a party!
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