Museum Area Mid-Century landscape process began with complete removal of all exiting plant materials, a pre-fab wrought iron fence around the front garden and a wooden fence at the back of the house, dilapidated cloth awnings and wood decking. Front Garden plantings construction: Boxwood petticoats outline the beds filled with lovely potted agaves and succulents at edge of pots, as well as lorapetalum in the ground. Boston Ivy was planted on the facade, to soften the brick as well as add color and texture. Pool Area Plantings & construction: the existing pool was re-plastered and a spa added, a clean line of single trunk crape myrtles was planted along pool with beach pebbles at their feet and fox tail ferns between trunks creating a checkerboard effect while angular panels of grass, gravel and stepping stones repeat the rectilinear design. Modern plastic furniture does double duty of adding pops of color while providing a happy resting spot. The wooden fence was designed with horizontal pickets and stained a grayish blue. Potted topiary shapes and a huge mirror serve as bookends to the bright modern furniture at opposite ends of pool. The Mirror can be covered with a tarp for outdoor movie night.
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