A New Patio...Reducing our front lawns

Our outdoor home improvement project for the year has been completed. We had a grassy patch of ground between the driveway and the house that has been turned into a nice, paver stone patio. At the same time we took out grass along the drive way and created paver stone walkway. No more tromping in the mud to get to the house.

Here's a look back at the journey.

The original grassy patch ....a favorite neighborhood kitty toilet...so pleasant

Here's an older pic showing where the new driveway-walkway would be built

Behind the pot in an 'L' shape the grass will be dug up with a new walkway put in

My friend Katie from Katie's Gardening came with a crew and dug out the grass, filled it with gravel, compressed it, then added sand, compressed again and laid the stones with some minor cutting.

New pavers in the former kitty toilet space

Here's a look at the new walkway running along the lower driveway

new walkway..bye bye muddy boots 

It's wonderful to step out onto a clean walk way when I get in or out of the car. We have now added some dirt back to the edges and have reseeded. In all, we likely removed a 3' x 20' section of lawn by creating the paver walkway and removed a  5' x 20'ish section grass section in the grassy patch.

Today, I got my Mother's day present early as I requested new pots to transplant my clematis into and pot up my baby Japanese maple trees. Hubby complied and even helped fill the pots with soil. I feel that my new front 'hot' patio is close to completion.

New green pots 

new pots and the clematis has been transplanted so that it can have the lattice to climb up

All that is left to complete this project is to acquire five or so more pots to put my new agave's in. I've been calling this space my new 'hot' patio as it will get toasty warm on summer days. I think the agave's will love it.

Thanks to Katie's Gardening for a great installation! I'm thrilled with this new space. It's tidy and there is far less grass to mow in the front.

Cheers, Jenni