Friday, July 3, 2009

Newest Installation (Before & After)






We just finished landscaping Keith and Megumi's house in NE Portland last week. I had worked on the design for it through this past winter. They wanted a clean, uncluttered design that incorporated retaining walls for mounded beds. They also longed for a better entrance to their back door which is their primary entry to the house. They have a little dog, and soon to be baby so we decided to build a fence that would allow for the back door to open into the back yard, creating a boundary between the back yard and street.

Keith built the fence and wall himself, and new automatic irrigation was installed. Superwonderful then prepped and graded the site and installed the new plants and sod.

The design includes many conifers - thunderhead pine, 'gracilis' hinoki, weeping cedar, 'creampuff' and 'snowsprite' cedars and evergreen shrubs including 'yuletide' camellia, 'green spire' euonymus and heavenly bamboo. The few perennials include bearded iris and japanese anemone.

The homeowners are ecstatic over the new landscaping, and I hear the neighbors can't stop complimenting it either.