Projects Underway!

An unseasonably dry early January brought an unseasonably early garden installation season. Clients and contractors were making the best of the dry weather digging footings for walls and pouring new concrete pathways. Of course, last week's rains required that soils were covered in plastic and contractors moved on to other work. I thought I'd share some 'before' pictures and 'process' pictures with you in an effort to share some of the daily tasks of my design work.

I've been consulting with this client for many years. This year they decided to change some of the existing concrete paving and I consulted with them and the concrete contractor before and during the installation.
In this photo, you'll notice that I've sprayed the pattern for the expansion joints in the new concrete.

This is a remodeled version of the old pathway. The new pathway is further from the house and curvier than the old.

More expansion joints and the curve that leads into the existing pathway.

The concrete has been poured and was in the process of being finished when I took this photo. The expansion joints that run perpendicular to those that are visible are full of concrete cream and therefore can't be seen in this photo.

The new path.

On a different project the clients and I wanted a second route to the front door that brings visitors through a garden rather than up the driveway to the front door. The project includes a brick retaining wall, steps to a curved pathway which intersects a half-circle of lawn and terminates at a pre-existing concrete and brick pathway to the front door. 

The brick pathway terminates here.