Just to catch you up, my last post was at the end of June, and it's now mid-November. We have moved most of our stuff from Houston, and the Copperfield home is on the market.
It has been one of the worst droughts on record here in the Texas Hill Country, but I'm pleased to say we just got over an inch of rain this morning. In June our landscaper was just getting started, but now that's complete and things are looking pretty nice.
The front and side yard have Jamur Zoysia turf grass. It has a thick carpet and is very drought tolerant. Most of our plants and shrubs are native to the Hill Country. The pink ornamental plant here is Muhly grass.
We found a craftsman at the Chappell Hill Scarecrow Festival who makes these street markers. We asked him if he could put a scorpion on it, and he did a great one. Ask Winnie for the story behind this.
We have a drainage easement on one side of our property. On the left is what it looked like before and on the right is after the landscaping. It went from "The Ditch" to "The River"
Our back yard has a Buffalo grass trail around it, with native grasses hydro-seeded everywhere else.
The native plants are a combination of what the landscaper planted (Copper Canyon Daisy, Lantana and Salvia Greggii) and plants that grew wild on the property (Prickly Pear Cactus, Yucca, Agarita and many others). We also added a flagstone deck and a fire ring.
In the front we have wax myrtles lining our electrical equipment. We had to put the wire fence around them to keep the deer from tearing them up.
This is one of several "dry stack" walls that were built. The landscapers actually used a rock hammer to "shape" each stone to fit. No mortar is used on these walls. The plants here are Crape Myrtles, Wooly Stemodia, Mountain Laurels, Loropetalum, Blackfoot Daisies, Jerusalem Sage, Plumbago, Bottle-brush and Dwarf Yaupon.
The garage is coming along nicely as well. I finally got the El Camino up here. I'm installing the Rubbermaid Fast Track system that you can see behind the El Camino. It's a very flexible system that allows you to use several kind of connectors for hanging different kinds of tools. And if you don't like how you arrange things, just unclip and move them somewhere else.
I couldn't close without at least one critter picture. Thanks to Kelly for capturing these two studs asserting their masculinity during the rut.
