What a Difference Some Plants Make

Between the crazy day at work, the ongoing family issues and supervising the final day of yard work at the house today, I'm absolutely knackered. I'm getting ready to pass out any second in order to be ready for another crazy day of issues tomorrow, but before I did that I wanted to put up the photos from the end of today.

The plantings are pretty much done except the final touches which will be done on the day they shoot the reveal (which has yet to be decided, but maybe someday over the weekend) In the meantime we are going to get some additional plants and put them in the large pots for around the lower patio section. But here is how it looks so far:

Here are some of the plants that will go in our new large planters in the next couple of day. We need more of the yellow flowers for the long skinny planter we plan to use to hide the AC power lines at the bottom of the fence.

The big issue today was with the waterfall that Gino got donated to us from Superior Faux Products. I guess maybe the company sent the wrong pump and the wrong hoses with this unit by accident because Gino and Ralph spent at least 3 hours trying to get this thing to work with no avail. They finally took it with them and said they would get new hoses and a new pump and get it working in their shop. Then they can bring it back and set it up real quick right before the reveal. From what I saw of it, it did look pretty awesome. It will go in the back right corner and have some rocks and grass planted around it.

Comments

[SvcMgr]

Dana:

After your trials and tribulations on so many areas of this project, I am so glad you got some well deserved and long awaited good news about your project being selected for professional landscaping and TV broadcast! Everything is shaping up splendidly. You and Eric have a remarkable showplace and, now, a backyard oasis, too. I am very happy for all of you; cats and chickens, included!

[dana]

thanks svcmgr--it is really nice to hear you say that. I like to think that we finally had some good karma come our way after all the crap we have had to put up with. we are looking forward to a time where we can just sit back and enjoy our house and not have to work so hard all the time...hopefully that will come soon! thanks for the kind words...