Bruce designed and sold this job, Ryan installed the stone walls, Doug and Bruce P were on the snap cut steps. I came in at the end for the landscape design having never seen the house. The homeowners Judy and Dale are lovely, Judy has spoiled the men with daily sweets cookies, brownies and popcicles. After site assessment and conversation we came up with a design saving some of the original plants and installing new, I also added a third stone terrace out of stones which were all the same size to extend the planting bed.
Judy did not think there was time for landscaping so she is especially happy that we have progressed. We installed a pretty little dwarf weeping beech which unfortunately has a nasty grub at the top of the leader so it snapped off after being bumped. Now we have to find a replacement for the beech or wait until spring and try to secure another. I stumbled upon some decent tulip bulbs so I decided to drop 100 in a bed where we intend to plant annuals, much to my delight turns out tulips are Dale's favorite flower.
Walking the two wanna be labs this morning was especially beautiful, clear, crisp, not another soul around for the entire hour. We walked in a newly harvested soybean field in addition to our normal stroll down the road. A deer jumped out and darted back into the brush, jets left their early morning vapor trails in the sky, neighbors cats bathed in the first rays of sunshine, combines loomed behind the next row of beans and clouds of dense smoke hung in the river it was a typical walk with the pack.
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