Here is the third phase of the posts I put up yesterday. Of some interest might be that ancient old buggy we picked up at an antique place. Those things suddenly got very expensive! But its definitely an authentic antique and actually pretty cool. The grapes sort of hide it in Summers, especially now that they have developed, but it displays itself prominently for most of the year.
Notice, the sidewalk’s end. A later picture will give a better perspective on it. You can see a part of the creek to the left, at any rate, and the brand new plantings we put in at the time of this picture. This project worked out very well indeed, in my opinion. And the home owner was and still is delighted.
We have excavated for what will soon be a stamped concrete sidewalk connecting all the various elements. The sidewalk will meet the stairs to the right and undulate throughout this back yard, hard by the water feature creek and falls. Small lawn areas will bracket the walk where we can and two circles at either end will provide seating and a place to put the pails and tools for collecting grapes or for maintaining the place in general.
With such a small tolerance for drainage, the lot being essentially level, out transit (”contractor’s level”) shown here set up to the right allows us to place appropriate grade stakes for marking the eventual height of the sidewalk. It’s pretty vital to develop runoff, made more complex by the legal determinations that every home owner is responsible for not washing out his neighbor with his runoff. Ironically, as dry as Reno is, it gets some serious water problems during the Winters when it catches pretty much literally all the rain and snow it gets for the entire year in a 3 month span.
As is obvious, we have also done some planting. These developed quickly, as the finished picture will show. This place had ideal soil to begin with and we added much to bring it to grade. This one will grow like crazy.
Here is the third phase of the posts I put up yesterday. Of some interest might be that ancient old buggy we picked up at an antique place. Those things suddenly got very expensive! But its definitely an authentic antique and actually pretty cool. The grapes sort of hide it in Summers, especially now that they have developed, but it displays itself prominently for most of the year.