Landscaping Thread-Show Off Your Landscape

Show off your personal or professional landscaping! Ask questions about plant choices, hardscapes, landscape designs & projects, landscaping tools, web sites, ideas, hopes, dreams, etc. If you have garden sheds, decks, arbors, outdoor rooms or any other outdoor projects please share!

While I enjoy gardening for the purpose of personal food consumption I like a well landscaped property. Please share what your landscaping world looks like!

Tacoma World has a Gardening Thread that sometimes drifts into the home landscape and plants that are used but that thread is primarily devoted to food gardening. Here is a link to that thread:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/gardening-thread-show-me-your-gardens.322242/

 

Photos of projects and landscape at a duplex that I own and lived at for many years:

 

New house that we moved into summer 2022 built on 5.4 acres of land in the Maine woods. It is a blank canvas with no landscaping at all and literally not a rock on the property that is bigger than a grain of sand unless it was brought onto the property. The property has a high water table which will make landscaping challenging and unique.

Before site preparation.



Excavation.



Foundation and setting the modular house on the foundation.



House set and final grading done.





Landscaping in progress.



Rough overhead view. I will hopefully use this rough picture to layout an overall landscaping design.

 

Nice place!

 

Some of deck/pergola. I still need to stain it.

 

Thanks! We love being in the woods. The duplex we own is literally right next to I95 so we lived with traffic noises for years. This is a nice change. Deer in the yard, room for the dog and her humans to explore the woods and a blank canvas. It will be a lot of work but hopefully a lot of fun also.

 

Very nice! Are you doing the work yourself?

 

It is nice especially if you hunt, trees are more appealing to see than neighbors...

 

Thanks! Lots of mistakes but i covered them well

 

While I have hunted as a kid it is not something that I have pursued as an adult. I firmly believe that if you are hunting then you should be eating what you hunt and since I am not it is not something I do. I do enjoy shooting wildlife with my camera though! We lucked out in regards to neighbors. We have a couple that live on the shared road that turns into a dead end and our driveway and both are very nice. The guy across the road is also very nice and plows, has a dump truck and an excavator. He is retired and VERY reasonable. He works to pay for his toys and because he enjoys it.

 

The summer after my first year of college I worked for a carpenter assisting him with adding a story and a half onto his personal house. I learned a lot and one of the things I remember best is that he told me, "A mistake is not a mistake if you can cover it up or fix it."

 

Finished this up at work a while back. I am in no way a proffessional landscaper.

 

Looks like you have the tools to be one! Looks good to me!

 

oh man. we took on a landscaping project this year, but won't finish until next year. we put in irrigation/sprinklers a couple months ago and got the trencher stuck on it's side trying to pull a pole thing out.

grass is coming in and looks nice though
https://imgur.com/a/O7WGFqw

 

Any pictures of the completed project?

 

the two grass pictures are close to done. i still have a list of things to do that won't happen until next years. i have to build a wood walkway/deck thing to separate the grass from the gravel seating area i need to put in too.

 

Got it! I originally missed the extra pictures and just now scrolled through them!

 

Need another weekend of above freezing temperatures to get the rest of the plants in and to move the landscape rocks I found for free and to move the pile of crushed stone from where I plow snow. Pics of additional landscaping in progress.