The proposed landscape was planted with winter blooming flowering plants and perennial flowering plants. Towards the back, evergreen shrubs with flowering shrubs were planted to give depth to the planting bed and to help soften the corner of the building.

The planting bed and the walkway in front had drainage problems due to stormwater from the the corner of roof. During a hard rain the walkway shown here in the middle would often be under a couple inches of stormwater. Something had to be done to alleviate this condition which was causing moisture problems up against the foundation in the corner.

The solution was a french drain system that would allow the stormwater from the roof to be caught in a catchment area hidden by the planting. The french drain system extends through the middle of the planting bed and runs under the walkway to the concrete paver edging seen in the pictures above. Buried under this concrete paver edging is the rest of the french drain system which terminates and daylights out into the yard.

The key in this design was to hide the system, so that the average veiwer would not know that it existed. The results is a satisfactory job of ameding the soils, solving the existing the drainage condition, and beautifying the existing garden area.

I am currently working on installing a landscape that will add a privacy hedge to an existing fence, as well as other planting around a new addition to the existing house.

Previous Landsape

This planting bed had serious drainage problems creating a wet soil condition for the existing plants and keeping moisture up against the foundation. The existing shrubs where in state of decline and had to be removed In fact all that seemed to really grow well there were weeds.

The crape mrytle shown in the first picture was planted too close to the foundation and had begun to grow into the overhanging eves for the garage. Something had to be done to return this area back to a functional and aesthetic landscape.