We are trimming our palms for the first time since we moved them.  Some of them are showing some rotting up in the canopy, which is just a sign that the roots are not yet fully established.  I’ve been told that it can take up to 10 years after transplanting for the roots system toRead more about Trimming the palms (again)[…]

The tree farm showed up early today and dropped in the largest specimen tree we are installing, a pretty good sized fruitless olive.  I saw them pull up on the street. First, they put the tree upright and dropped  it into the hole for placement and depth measurement. If you look at the chains above,Read more about More trees[…]

We’ve got the first of our landscaping installed, with the hedges and trees around most of the property line installed now. The hedges above are a variety called podocarpus henkelii.  It is a somewhat slower growing hedge, but is very dense, and will not grow overly thick.  Over time, it will get nice and tallRead more about Hedges & trees[…]

After laying all the drainage pipes all over the yard, filling in the trenches, and roughly grading the property, the next step was to dig another set of yet shallower trenches for the irrigation piping. The irrigation starts where the water main hits the house.  From there, the landscaping water goes through the backflow stack.Read more about Irrigation water![…]

The landscaping is set to begin this week.  They’ve started by clearing all the reaming trash and junk from the property. It is finally time to throw away a lot of the wood we kept around just in case we needed it.  Now we have a blank canvas from which to implement a beautiful yard.Read more about Landscaping – a raw canvas[…]