Garden of the Day: Starting with a North Slope Blank Canvas
[nggallery id=”24421″ template=galleryview] This North Slope Gardener sent in a tale of clearing “enough rubble to fill a dump truck,” to make this sleek patio. Send your Garden of the Day submissions here. Glass, wires, bricks, porcelain, stone, boulders and I swear a piece of a meteorite (the stone was so heavy for its moderate…
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This North Slope Gardener sent in a tale of clearing “enough rubble to fill a dump truck,” to make this sleek patio. Send your Garden of the Day submissions here. Glass, wires, bricks, porcelain, stone, boulders and I swear a piece of a meteorite (the stone was so heavy for its moderate size) had to be unearthed and removed. First step was getting a few different estimates that ranged from $13K to $24K just to remove debris, level, and install bluestone over sand and bluestone dust and also create two raised beds 3′ by 12′ and 3′ by 16′ with bluestone caps and cultured stone facade over cinder block. I also installed pipes and snaked wires for accent lighting in both planters underneath the bluestone.
The total area is about 25′ by 30′. The plantings were the second phase of this project which was supposed to be done in April/May. I picked out most of the plants with the help of a contractor and planted somewhat sparsely in order to use those areas for annuals and vegetables as I see fit next season.
The two trees are a Japanese Red Maple and Dogwood. I also have a Holly and Crape Myrtle along with some boxwoods, azaleas, and mums. (Of course some other shrubs whose names escape me.)
Most of the plants will flower at some point through out Spring-Summer. Waiting on patio furniture with hopes to enjoy a few brisk Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading Sunday paper before winter arrives.
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Dave, please see post #2. It started as Patio versus garden. Ok, now we’re arguing about what the argument is!
Yard Biff, Yard.
Patio versus garden? Wowie. Is there anything we won’t argue about on this site?
The contractor was Rich Besso from Exterior Landscape and Design his number is 516-330-7828.
Thanks for all the positive feedback as well.
Whatever you call it, I am excited to have it….finally.
Paddy O’Grady.
Its a yard with a patio AND a garden. The latter contained in a combination of elegant stone raised beds and a secluded corner planting.
I could write that for a BSH real estate listing.
When this gets boring go over to yesterday’s quote of the day for some lively politics.
PotAYto PotAHto
It’s still nice whatever you call it.
I agree with dittoburg. The hardscaping is elegant and well-done, but there’s very little earth left for actual landscaping. It’s very much more like a patio than a garden, lovely as it is.
Wrong, a patio cannot take up the whole space as this apparently does. Thats why its a yard.
The confines of the space constitute a “yard” dittoburg. It’s a patio with planters which, by their definition, form small gardens.
Otherwise, all this crap aside, its very nice, very classy. I wish I had decided to make mine as sleek.