About 3 years ago we got our pool. Dean & I did all of the landscaping ourselves. There was one area in the yard where we couldn't get anything to grow. Including banana plants, which I thought were really easy to grow. Dean figured out it was because our water leveler drained into this area & the salt water was killing everything. A few weeks ago he did some drainage work so that the leveler drains into the canal/ditch in the very back of our lot. Here's a before picture of part of our yard.
The things in the pool are solar rings & they help warm up the pool water. The area along the fence is what we were working on. Here's a close up.
Grass didn't even grow right.
Thursday, Dean had 6 yards of dirt delivered. The guy that we get dirt from works with Dean & he always throws in a little extra. This time he threw in a lot extra. The pile of dirt that's left looks as big as when we started.
Dean built a brick wall to keep the dirt from washing under the fence into our neighbors driveway. He got the bricks at Lowe's. We bought rock like the kind that's around the pool to put on this end of the bed. I just realized I don't have a picture after we put the rock down. Dean spent his day off Friday building the wall & shoveling dirt.
After much research we decided that we wanted Bamboo in this area. Not the kind that goes crazy & runs all over the place. We got what they call a "clumping" bamboo. There are several different kinds. We bought "Golden Goddess". The trunks are a pretty golden color. Here they are planted.
Another angle. The bamboo is supposed to grow fairly fast so it'll fill in & cover the fence.
This is what it looks like mature.
We have a ways to go! We also bought 2 "Frost proof" Gardenias. These are planted in the bed in front of the bamboo.
That's how we spent out Saturday! I'm so happy to have this done. We just have to add pine straw.
Toodles!
