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Initial - Fall 2003
We started with about a quarter acre of mostly flat yard with very few garden beds or plantings. The back yard was planted with grass and was badly sloped to the back left hand corner. There was a retaining wall at the back and along the right-hand side of the yard.
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View of exterior front of the house. Japanese boxwood planted along edge of front sidewalk and annuals planted in beds at front. |
View of exterior back of the house. Texas privet planted along left side of fence with privet tree on right side. Bare spot is from previous owner's Doughboy pool. |
Back right-hand corner of the yard. Note small unidentifiable dwarf citrus. |
Fence along back of yard. No plantings and it slopes towards the left-hand corner of the yard.
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Unidentified tree in vacant field behind the house. These are very common in Yucaipa and grow like weeds. We've nicknamed it the "Weed Tree".
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Before we could proceed with landscaping plans, the drainage problems had to be fixed:
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James dug a trench along the back wall, installed gravel and drains, and sloped the back left-hand corner so it drained into the yard instead of through the retaining wall.
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We leveled the yard so that water drained towards the front street instead of the back left-hand corner.
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Built a short "retaining wall" between us and the neighbors on the left-hand side where slope was crumbling into their yard.
James also installed an lectrical conduit 18" deep for future spa, pond, fountain and/or garden lighting and re-sodded the area of lawn killed by the previous owner's above ground pool.
