Landscaping by a Pro

After - Using your artistic ability along with different plants add beauty to your home. When it comes to landscaping, picking out the right plants, along with a little know how; sweat and tired muscles. Now sit back and admire the view that you have accomplished.

Landscaping - Before

Before -

Adding the Foundation to your Wooden Arbor

Another View of the Wooden Arbor

Calla Lily

Ferns

Pink Geranium

Geraniums grow 1-2 feet tall with concentric marking on leaves. They do best in full sun, but grow well in partial shade should have sun at least half of each day. It is a Perennial.

Double Bloom Petunia Lavender

Lavender Double Blooms

Coleus

Purple Blooms

Orange Daylily

Daylilly - Geppetto

Geppetto

Landscaping not quite complete

Japanese Red Maple Tree

The Japanese Red Maple tree, is by far, one of the most popular ornamental plants. This small deciduous tree is a very showy, versatile species. It is used as a single specimen or in borders or groupings. It can be a single stemmed small tree or multi-stemmed shrub. The leaves are reddish-purple in spring and again in the fall. The Japanese Red Maple tree is used to create a unique bonsai tree. It does best in full sun and moist well drained soils.

Center Plant is Liriope (Lirope) or Monkey Grass

Front of House - more landscaping

Bird House

Ground Cover

Ground Cover

River Birch Tree

About the River Birch: I find the tree so captivating and unique. It displays a light reddish brown cinnamon bark that peels and flakes to give that beautiful look that the birch family is noted for. It does well in wet soil. It has dark green summer foliage and turns a golden yellow in the fall. It is also best adapted to moist, acid soils, but will survive dry soils. It is truly a beautiful tree in the summer and winter, and it is widely adaptable and heat tolerant.

Brass Bird Feeder

Brass Bird Feeder

Astilbe - Visions

Astilbe - Fisions is a colorful feathery flower with raspberry blooms and lacy blue-green foliage. It blooms in mid summer and reaches 15" in height. It is more sun tolerant, but is most successfully grown in a shady area. A mosit, well-drained area is key for this plant. Astilbe can be used as cut flowers. It is also great to plant along with Hosta's and Ferns. This plant also will attract hummingbirds.

Lavendar Blooms

Ajuga - Bronze Beauty - Blue Flowers

The Ajuga is a useful ground cover with short spike of blue flowers. The foliage is evergreen in most regions and has an attractive bronzy-brown color that quickly forms a low carpet of medium-sized rounded leaves. The flowers appear in late spring on 4" spikes and spreads of 12-18 inches. The plant does best in a shaded area but will adapt to the morning sun, the foliage colors will be more vivid with the morning sun. It prefers moist soil with a good drainage, but it will tolerate moderately dry areas. Ajuga looks great in rock gardens as a border plant and mass plantings. Butterflies and hummingbirds are attracted to this plant. It is a great perennial ground cover.

Lavendar Blooms