Notes from the drawing board.
What we have learned building and maintaining yards in the CSRA — the grade, the water, the plants that actually hold up in Zone 8a heat and Georgia clay.
Why your yard floods in the same spot every spring
If the same corner of your yard turns to soup every February, the problem is almost never the rain. It is the grade, the clay underneath it, and where the roof water is being put.
When to cut back crape myrtles, and why we will not top them
Late winter, before the buds break. And no, we are not going to cut it off at shoulder height, whatever the neighbors did.
What a landscape plan actually buys you
A drawing is not a formality before the digging starts. It is the part that decides whether the yard still works in ten years.