LANDSCAPING IMPROVEMENTS

These are some of the new landscaping and paving improvements to our place in northern Michigan.

At the center of the picture is a new paved sidewalk by the side of the driveway. We can now walk or bike by the side of the parked RAM without stepping on the grass.

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This is a closer look at the pavers. The dominant color is a soft mauve with subtle sand and gray blocks. To the left is a stone bordered front flower garden and our new maple shade tree.

At the back left you can see the side berm with alternating blue Oregon junipers and new Chinese dwarf yellow junipers. At the front of the berm is the new burgundy red Japanese maple and hot pink wave petunias in pots embedded in receptacles. All the mulch is now a dark red stone.

This is the front flower garden. It has annuals as well as very young perennials. The annuals are also in pots embedded in receptacles in the garden like those around the Japanese maple. All plants are irrigated by a drip system on an automatic scheduler.

These are new wall planters on the "coach house" with their own drip irrigation line on the right. Ants climbed the irrigation tubing and ate the yellow flowers on the right before we caught the invasion.

This is the pond-front porch. The dark red stone mulch and two pots with geraniums are new this year.