Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Gardening progress.












The Front Yard pool has been warmly received by our Florida neighbors. We don't have to use our names, we just introduce ourselves to new people as the ones with the front yard pool. Everyone knows it. Skeptics appear to be accepting of it and admit it is barely seen from the street now that we have the plantings in and the hibiscus hedge has grown. You can see from the photo below taken in April that there is a hedge planted along the front which is now a foot taller. We've planted palms and ginger out front which should fill in the gaps and grow fast once the rains start. The brick path is lined with plants and to the right I have planted drought tolerant Bromeliads and Crotons. We've a mix of huge oak trees, mixed with many palms such as pony tail palms, travellers palms, fan palms, date and foxtail palms, as well as some herbs, succulents, aloe and other desert plants. One side looks like Northern Ontario and the other looks like the tropics. We watched a nest of cardinals and I caught this photo of the one remaining chick. I think in a year, no one will even know there's a pool back there. 

8 comments:

  1. Gorgeous Raz . . . you have vision and pasazz . . . love it!

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  2. Looks fabulous; specially love the little hammock area.

    Sue
    xo

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  3. Okay...speechless. Staring at these images. :)

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  4. It's gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful and inviting. Enjoy!

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  5. It looks like a little piece of heaven.

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  6. It looks really beautiful. Is the spikey plant an Aloe Vera? I've got one in a pot on my window.

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  7. Oh it is all so wonderful ! So lush and warm looking !
    I want a brick path :)
    I love the before and after photos .. it all seems to always work out well in the end ... besos .

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  8. Someone is having WAY to much fun here!! Nice job Chania!! Just beautiful!

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