Relief

Happy to report that the landscape designer and her husband with whom she owns the company came today and looked at the sloping patio. Tomorrow they are going to take up the pavers and put more rock under and level it some. The problem is that we are trying to run the slope away from the house to avoid any pooling or leaking into the basement. The good news is that they are very responsive and willing to make it right even if it means taking a little extra time. I laughed when Chris (Andrea's husband) said that he could see Dwight sitting on the patio with a beer and noticing that it was slightly sloped.

My friend Beth made a comment about my last posting as follows: I am not sure if it counts as you being the gardener when you have a Landscape Architect on the job. I'm sure it will turn out nicely though in the end..

Well I have to say that I have no doubt that Andrea and her husband could do a wonderful job on our entire yard. But we have only hired them for the hardscaping and some landscaping across the back of our lot as part of our recent renovation project. Boy we have a whole lot more area to cover than just that and we are going to have to resort to old fashioned hard work and ingenuity if we are going to get this place looking decent.

Need to landscape the large woody area that we cleaned out across the back of our property. It's shady, shady, shady. Need to find a nice sunny place for a kitchen garden. Desperately need to come up with some landscaping for the front and side of the house along side the garage and driveway. Need to fill in around the new hardscaped patio. Need to finish up the landscaping next to the driveway around the new garage. Need to get the front looking up to par. Small tasks that all add up to a very large one! The Hesitant Gardener is really hesitant thinking about all the work we have to do!