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I haven’t posted recently on Project #6.  The work there is done…well, for this year anyway, and I’d like to show you one of the last steps to completing this project. Plastering The Pool This was a special day – certainly for the homeowner, but for all of us involved with the project.  No matter [...]

In this post we are again visiting the fabulous lake house where East Coast Landscape artfully merged the home with the natural surroundings. This is a good opportunity to introduce another great plant called Japanese Andromeda (Pieris japonica). It happens to be another favorite of mine and one that was used nicely on this site. [...]

Yes, this could be a “do-it-yourself” job, but somehow I don’t think so.  There is enough larger plant material in this (ahem) design to indicate a landscape company had been involved. Whether you are a do-it-yourselfer or a member of the trade, there is a fundamental principle of landscape design: complement, don’t compete. Frankly, this [...]

In the last post for this project we saw the sonotube footings beneath the four corners of the concrete slab.  When the decorative stone & brickwork is complete, each footing will secure and support a pavilion column. Within the 12″ wide bluestone border is a row of brick to visually tie-in the surrounding brick patio. [...]