Landscape Ideas from Me

With the arrival of fall and the seasons temperatures dropping, spending time outdoors is being diminished one colder-than-the-last day at a time. What better way to to extend time spent grilling, entertaining family and friends and enjoying nature than by warming up your outdoor living space with a custom fire pit.

Natural gas or propane burning fire pit systems are the way to go these days for a number of reasons. The main reason is that wood burning fire pits are being outlawed by local ordinances because of safety and health concerns. Wood burning fire pits expel ash, burning embers and smoke into neighboring backyards while posing a fire threat at the same time. They are harder to control than a gas fire pit and take longer to extinguish whereas with a gas burning system, you can turn it on and off with the turn of a key valve. People with asthma and other breathing illnesses are affected by the smoke that wafts onto their property and into their home posing health concerns.



But back to the point of this blog. EXTEND THE SEASON WITH WARMTH! Fire pits are a great way to keep enjoying your outdoor living space now that temperatures are dropping and the sun is setting sooner. Fire pits are easy to install and will allow you to stay warm while enjoying these chillier fall evenings.

For examples of custom fire pits, be sure to check out our portfolio. And for any other outdoor living and landscape design questions, feel free to contact us at any time at: 1-877-556-5255.

Weve been baked, jet washed and blown dry in the last few weeks, and the strong winds are still reminding us of staking Could-Do-Betters, like this Inula magnifica who looks a little worse for wear in his drunken sea of long grass.

But apart from a bit of tidying up after the storms, the garden is in holiday mood. The season extenders grown from seed have been planted and the weeds are slowing down. The grass has paused in the heat and a sea of clover has taken its place, alive with happy noisy bees, so theres time to walk the dogs..


















One of the best things about walking, is the feeling of familiarity as you pass the same spots through the seasons.  We dont own the land through title deeds, but we all belong to the land, and in a spiritual way it belongs to us.

Tramping my daily beat with my spaniels circling my heels, I get terribly excited as the first buds on the trees herald the beginning of the end of winter. With the birth of the first lambs I feel triumphant and the arrival of the wild orchids along the side of the road makes me feel protective and then positively subversive as I dream of lying down in the path of the inevitable Council mowing machines.

As I walk I feel grounded and gradually peaceful. Nature is taking its course and all is in its place in this little corner of Englands Green and Pleasant land. England seems through my lifetime to have been forever going to war, but it has always been at one remove, in a distant place and often for someone elses quarrels, so despite the news and the brave friends who return, we can be thankful that for many years war has not been to us.



















Strange to think then that my favourite fields were once the spring board for D-Day. That the fields of sheep and crops were runways and Nissan huts, and that fierce dog fights took place over my house each day.

















This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, and to commemorate the brave American and Canadian airmen of the Ninth US Air Force and the 2nd Tactical Airforce, our local farmer Roger Munn has allowed a monument to be put up on his land in their memory.


















I am very grateful to them for my peaceful walks.



These days the fields are the springboard for dozens of sky larks, jet propelled vertically into the sky as we pass, whilst on the way home the human fly past is almost silent:-


















But the dogs have been busy collecting new weed seeds for the garden, so I wont be idle for long..

My thanks to Anni, who lives on the other side of the airfield and who gave me the black and white photos - here she is waving from her top right window:-

Recently I was asked to do a design that had a touch of everything in it...


The property owner had made requests for:

• a pool with a water feature
  
• enough patio space to allow for a chiminea and sun lounge chairs
  
• deck space for dinning and BBQ area
• a covered hot tub space
• the cabana house with a small bar area incorporated in it
• privacy
• grass or lawn space to allow for kids to play and possibly have an ice rink in winter
• storage areas
• and last but not least....gardens!!!

When presented with these requests...it can sometimes seem like a tall order for smaller yards but the idea of a landscape design is to make things fit and organize the space so it fits well! The particular drawing shown above displays a slightly larger than normal typical sub-division lot which allowed for me to fit everything in that the customer had on their wish list! I was able to do it in a way that kept things in balance in terms of where things were located.

The end result.... a cool looking backyard that will provide hours of entertainment that would extend into the winter months with the addition of the skating rink, the chiminea spot and the hot tub!!!

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