This is the second year from when we did the Glenstone Drive landscape job. Here is what it looked like before we started.

You can see that it's as plain a slate as can be. This picture was taken in late spring just before the major ice storm we had here.

After loosing three of our best trees, we started by adding a cedar porch. Then we marked out a landscape design and went ot work.

This bed was built to attract butterflys and they are all over the flowers every day. Our beds are full of flowers and with an added low pressure water system it only takes minor weekly updates. We do minor weeding and trimming once a week and we have some sort of flower from spring till fall.

Landscape Projects "Time Line"

Hey All!

Well we have had a very BUSY season so I would like to post for all you new clients how we go about setting priority for landscape jobs.

Basically our motto is "first come first serve". We do all we can as soon as we can. We even look at staging items we will need on your job ahead the project start time. Things like landscape blocks, dirt, mulch, tractors and larger equipment can be staged on the job site before and during the project.

There are two exceptions;

1.) If the customer request that they be there (on the job site) when their project is being done then we could have to move their job around and this can create unnecessary delays. What I mean is, if the customer is not ready when we get to their job then we have to push other waiting job(s) in front of them so that we keep from delaying any of those waiting.
This can be resolved by meeting with me prior to the job and going over every aspect of the project. Once this is done, give us the go ahead to complete your project like you have convoyed it. We have a "Satisfaction Guaranteed" policy so fear not, we will get it right because that's what you expect of us.

2.) If we have multiple jobs in the same area we will move jobs up the list to again save time.

We have yet to have a customer that hasn't recognized that we work hard and do what they expect. As I have said many times we work as hard as the customers wants us to.

One of our landscape updates

This is the picture before I started on the landscape of this house.

This was the finished landscape project. One of the best things we did on this project was to add low pressure sprinklers. The picture here does not do the plants justice. It was a very nice year for this project and I will add an update this spring.

"Bowman" - The "Tear-Out"

The first day was devoted to removing all the old plants and landscape beds. This started on Saturday 10/3/09 (Out with the old to make room for the new). Three of us worked on the project the first day and we where able to remove almost everything.





On Sunday we started the metal edging but quickly decided to start over on it. The weather had turned colder over the weekend and then on Sunday it started raining. So we really only had a day and half of good work time. There was a large amount of debris that we staged below the house and it looked like we had made headway.



The front of the house really looks blank without any plants however, the large yew was overtaking the house. The new beds and plants will add to the house but at the same time open up the view from the entrance to the house and from inside the house looking out.

"Bowman" landscape remodel

This is the "Bowman" landscape job. I have not posted in a while but have had some request to see the process and I have been keeping up with the pictures.

This a large house that just needed its landscape to be re-done. It appeared that plants and beds where added over the years at different times and just did not make the house look as good as it could.


The umbrella tree was growing over into the walk way and old landscape lighting no longer worked.

Ice Storm

I just about have everything cleaned up at my place now but we had one heck of an ice storm. On January 27th tree limbs snapped off like toothpicks and littered my yard. In the middle of the night I could hear limbs breaking and wondered how bad it was going to get. My house where slightly damaged but I am a lot better off than most. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to finish my yard and that’s after having a crew on my property for a whole day.

The damage has been compared to a very large class two tornado.














Here is one of the trees I lost in my yard.

Building Flower Boxes

We have been having some fun this winter going to Master Gardener classes and learning more about plants and hardscapes. Last week we started work on some flower boxes. This box is located at the Bull Shoals White River State Park. We were there to help mostly because I love this park and plan on camping at it for years to come.

OK, more about the boxes... We were replacing a box that was put in more than 15 years ago. The old box was made out of treated lumber (the 4x4 rounded landscape timbers). The box still had good form but it was well overdue to be replaced. Earth seems to reclaim everything in time and it was well on its way to reclaiming the old timbers.
The park had 6x6 timbers to build new boxes out of which should keep them around for the next 20+ years.
You can't see it from this picture but there are a lot of angles in this box that complicated this build, however the box's overall form is turning out great and I can't wait to see the whole build.
Next week we will work on the second box next to this one and an added archway for a climber plant to be added to.
I will add more pictures as the build continues.