Greenwood Heights Backyard: Intro to Greenwood Hts Backyard

August 11, 2008

The "Positive Side" of a Construction Fence.

Welcome to our back yard work in progress...sped up by Brooklyn building development...

Photo: through the fence to our yard (though our yard is on both sides of said fence).

While we have always been avid gardeners (from apartment roof top to our own backyard), we had no idea what would be in store for us and our garden when our neighbor next door sold his house to a neighborhood developer and the original two-story frame (not attached to our house) demolished and replaced with a four-story brick condo (attached to our house).

Photo: yard, fence, new building, sky (still some left).

After a spring and summer of demolition, excavation and construction, along with the loss (voluntary) of half of our yard to the developer, our original ideas for the evolution of our garden from the past four-plus years of tilling it changed . . . 40 feet of construction fence, moving half of your plants and newly built 40 feet of brick will do that.

So, knowing that the developer would be compensating us for the (necessary) damage to our aging (circa 1965) concrete 35X20 ft. patio, plus the headache of a spring and summer lost to dust and noise, we figured we could use some expert advice from a landscape designer to help us visualize our needs and new look before the patio and garden were replaced.

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