Steve Snedeker’s Landscaping and Gardening Blog

Here is a job done for Larry and Mary, a nice local couple who had a pool installed and no patio around the poor thing.  They entertain a large family who visit often and who have children ready made for a nice swimming pool.  The project took up a substantial amount of territory, aside from this picture.  We made a sandbox, planted some very desert-themed cacti and yucca plants, even a Joshua Tree or two.  I liked the end result and so did they.

I just love the look of the grass and the reasonably (and surprisingly) green mountains alongside.  The vistas here are tremendous and the air fresh and clean.  The grass looks gorgeous in the bright sun and our flowering crabapple looks as contented as it can be.

The title sounds Chinese as heck.  On this project we secreted a source of the small creek to the left with an additional, though buried, pipe.  We then ran it down the way to originate somewhere besides the original creekbed itself.  Thus, one can walk up from the right and see yet another cascade originating from a hidden source.  We have been doing this elsewhere as well, it was a neat and promising idea.

Charlie is another contractor, a carpenter, with a wife who is an avid gardener.  They wanted a wide waterfall system, something they could light up at night and view from their house, about 120 feet away.  It worked out well, indeed.  This view is the falls not quite completed.  Additional plants will flesh this out nicely, to go with the fish and plants they are rumored to have installed recently.  I will update this project periodically.