Deep Roots Landscaping

This Moss Rock wall project took a total of two weeks to complete. The home owner loves the finished project.

Materials and plants installed:

3 dogwood Cherokee Prince/ 30 Winter Jasmine/ 60 Autumn Ferns/ 15 Oak Leaf Hydrangea/ 3 Adgo Grass/ 3 Pink Mully Grass/ 5 Little Bunny Grass/ 5 Day lilly Happy Return/ 6 Wheeler Dwarf Phittosprum/ 2 Nano Crypatermia/ 2 Gold Mops

Materials used:

120 Bails of Pine straw/ 30 bags of mortar/ 300 square feet of stone/ 2 yards of sand/ 300 feet of drip line for irragation / 3 large boulders that weight three thousand pounds/ 10 yards of top soil/ 1 27ft Flag pole/  That’s all the materials that I can remember … I’m sure there are few items I missing.

Autumn Fern
This a great evergreen fern to use in landscaping it will tolerate some partial sun to full shade (No Hot Afternoon Sun).  The Autumn Fern will not spread and stays in clumps, growing to a maximum of 24 inches in height.  The new growth comes out Bronze in color then turns bright green.  Deep Roots Landscaping likes to use the Autumn Fern in our landscaping design.

Hide Your Water Hose
I have seen the use of containers before to hide water hoses and garden tools and thought it has a great idea.  So why not try it.  I really like the way it works …  just you coil the water hose in a circle inside the container and pull out as much water hose as you need.  Yes, it still takes a little time to roll the hose up inside the container, but it gives the water hose a nice tasteful home around your landscaping (and I have yet to find a hose reel that really works well).

Confederate Jasmine – this is a great evergreen vine to use in your landscape.  It also has a small white flower that blooms once a year with a great fragrance, so it’s great planted by an entrance.  We used this vine to cover an old ugly wire dog fence that was about 6 feet tall.  It has taken five vines that we planted three years ago to cover about twenty square feet.  We used fertilizer and watered on a regular schedule to achieve this amount of growth.  It is not the fastest to grow but once established does very well.  This vine is great for mail boxes, arbors and trellis.

In the front on the house we used the recycled stone for the planter edging. The edging is about 6 inches in height with curves only and no straight lines.

The plant selection was encore azalea “autumn angle white” which blooms twice per year. This will give the house a bit of color in mid spring and early fall. There were nine azaleas total.  We used Radicus Gardenia next to the front porch. The Gardenia will welcome the home owner and guest a great smell in June when they come to the front door.  The bloom is also white.  We used 7 plants for this area next to the front door.

Just click the picture below for an expanded view of the landscape.

There are over 3000 square feet of Country Manor retaining wall and 2000 square feet of marble pavers. 200 linear feet of hand rails. 9 foot retaining wall.

There were 38 steps the from parking pad to the backyard.

40 X 40 play ground with rubber mulch.

Moss Rock fire place it is 10 ft tall

The flagstone steps are blue stone.

We used variegated Hosta in the stone planter behind the retaining wall to add a bright color during the summer months.
The rain gutter that removes water from the screened in back porch runs under the retaining wall, flagstone patio and under ground to the lowest point in the backyard to get the water off the property.

Autumn ferns are a great choice for ferns as they are evergreen, love the shade and easy to grow.  Autumn ferns are not a spreading fern they stay in a clump. The Autumn fern new growth comes out in a bronze color.
The rock you see in the planter are small boulders that we used in odd numbers to separate the planter and provide a natural accent piece. This goes well with the stone retaining wall and the stone fire pit.

This planter is right beside the door the comes out of the screen in porch. We chose Niko Blue hydrangea for this planter. You will all so notice the we used odd numbers for the hydrangea . This will add a lot of color to sided of the house. You can change hydrangea color by adding lime to the soil around the plant and have either pink are blue.

Deep Roots is now a Techniseal Certified Applicator.  On 4/20/2010 we successfully completed the Techniseal Certified Applicator program under the supervision of an authorized trainer.

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3 Large “Thuja” Green Giants 15 ft tall 5″ wide -installed today

I call this swimming pool landscape because, … we filled in a swimming pool and created a new backyard, including the arbor with a locking gate and six foot dog ear fence.

The swimming pool below took 3 full days to pump all of the water out.  We had freezing weather so we could not pump at night without making an ice skating rink.  The pool was made from fiber glass, so we cut the pool into sections and disposed of the fiber glass.  Concrete slabs we used to fill the large hole, walkways  and a concert patio.  On top of the concert slabs we back filled with dirt.  It rained for about three days after the fill dirt was installed so we could see the soil settle and add more fill dirt.  The hardest part and most time consuming was removing the diving board … this took me a good 30 minutes with a excavator.

The rain was a big problem for this job … but the end result was worth it.  The pool was 35 ft long and 20 wide.

We built a 30 ft by 25 ft deck out yellow wood to make a nice setting area to enjoy the new back yard. The stone around the deck was recycled from an old rock waterfall. The plants are Sweet Olive they produce a flower with a very nice sweet fragrance.  The Sweet Olive is a great shrub for you Birmingham landscaping.

The sod installed is a variety called Zoro, which is a shade tolerant Zoysia grass.  Zoysia should do great in this backyard since it only gets 4 to 6 hours of filtered sun light. The Crepe myrtle trees were transplanted from another area of the yard. We recycled a lot of plants out of this yard.

We decided to do something different and use flagstone as the step instead of treated wood.

When we started this job there was a concrete walkway that went to the pool and a concrete patio (14′ x 14′) next to the large Oak tree.  We took all this concrete material and used it to fill in the swimming pool hole. We replaced the concrete walkways with flagstone walkway steps.

These flagstone steps work great in a pathway.  We decided to use the flagstone steps to cut down cost because this area is not used often. The flagstone steps are set in sand about 2 inches deep.



We replaced the old pool with a new stone fire pit and flagstone patio.  The retaining wall is new as well.  We recycled the stone around the fire pit and the retaining wall from an old fountain and fish pond in the same area. This helped save the home owner a lot of money by not having to buy stone.  The three large rocks around the fire pit are used as benches or rock seat, they where recycled as well. We used a mortared flagstone patio designed for high traffic that connects to the back deck.

We selected the fire pit location to be seen from the screened in porch. This area was designed to be a focal point and a common area for this one side of the backyard.  The fire pit has a concrete block structure and faced with natural stone.  The fire pit center is faced with fire brick and fire mortar to withstand the heat. There is also a flagstone cap at that goes around the fire pit.

The fire pit is about 22 inches tall.  Designed so all the heat would not go just straight up but also out to the sides. The fire pit is five feet in diameter and the inside diameter is four feet, leaving a nice six inches for sitting when there is no fire.  The large boulders were placed in a half circle to almost give you a courtyard feel because the yard is so open. A person can be sitting on one of the large boulders and another person can still walk around the fire pit.

The picture below is taken from back porch leading to the flagstone patio with the fire pit. We recycled the mondo grass and placed it between the flagstone walkway and the retaining wall. This is great grass for this area because it is a evergreen, low maintenance and it is a shade lover.