Hoosierhillsinc - Landscape Designer

Despite my home being a little on the small side (only 1200 sq. ft.), I actually have a very nice sized yard. The seller was kind enough to leave me a lawnmower; however, I am not excited about mowing the lawn. My plan is to do as much landscaping as possible to cutdown on the amount of grass I have to mow. My mother plans to get started this weekend.


Following are some images from paul & sarah's home that really inspire me. I love the use of cement in their landscaping.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 9:02 am, and is filed under Landscaping News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

I rode the fixed gear today, yep that is right, after almost two years of not riding my bicycle, I rode it. It was only 3 miles, and it was colder than a well diggers ass, and I did not have proper riding shorts but hey I RODE MY BICYCLE.

I used to ride everyday and bicycles were a major part of my life, then I moved to Georgia, and well Georgia and my job killed my bicycle riding. San Antonio has the perfect terrain for riding, but the worst roads and drivers but damn it, I don't care, I am riding my bicycle again. Slowly at first, just three miles a day until I get proper clothing again. FIXEDGEARFIEND IS BACK!!!!

Now that is out of the system, on to what this post is titled about.  I am starting to landscape the yard.  I need to draw it out and plan the flowerbeds and where grass and plants will be.  We hope to do some texas native xeriscapeing.  Today though is full of cleaning the yard.  Our backyard has nothing but dirt and a few weeds, oh and tons and tons of pecans and dead leaves and twigs.  We are starting the cleaning process by just raking and bagging up everything.

Also with the landscaping is trying to get a nice wood privacy fence put around our backyard and having the ugly chainlink fence removed.  Right now everyone is quoting us way to much, 5000 or 4500 and they are not willing to work with us on the materials to get the cost down.   We are currently waiting on a quote from the lowes fencing people, lowes is letting us pick whatever materials we want and that is sure to bring the price down.

We have so much work to do it is so overwhelming,  I have never had to plan something like this and it is going to be a huge learning process.

Update later I hope.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 7:42 pm, and is filed under Landscaping News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Well spring is in the air or I should say in the area of central Oklahoma where I build new homes. Some of you may have snow on the ground but you know spring is not to far away.With this time of year it makes ones thoughts turn to the outdoors and specifically a landscaping project that you have had in mind all winter. Landscaping can have a large impact on the appearance of your house.  Sometimes the only difference in having it done professionally and doing it yourself can be performance and speed of which the job might get done.  Thinking from the point of saving money may or may not be the right way to look at it after all if the job does not look right and enhance your home what good is it any way right?  Sodding a yard, planting trees, and building flower beds is no doubt back breaking and tiring work but certainly doable.  Sodding a new yard it is very important to get the ground level and the drainage correct and then lay your new sod in.  In my experience of building new homes, especially if a client puts in a sprinkler system, you will always have some ditch settling so make sure your ditched are compacted as well as you can. This will minimize the amount of leveling you do after your sod is installed.  If you are going to plant trees make sure you know what kind of trees are best suited for your climate and what time of year is best to plant them and how much water is needed to get them started.  Building a flower bed area can be as simple as using a steel edging to separate your bed from your sod area to as elaborate as brick or stone walls.  Many clients that we have like to have these bed area incorporated into the building process so that the materials can match their house, but you can also use decorative concrete blocks for a very nice look.  Talk to the people at your local nursery as they will be able to give you some pointers on what type of plants will work well in your bed areas, depending on soil type and sun light exposure among the things to take into consideration.  So if you are going to take on a landscaping project make sure you do your homework, because after all a shoddy landscape job in my opinion is worse than no landscaping at all.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 at 12:11 am, and is filed under Landscaping News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Have you noticed the rapid decline of our estate in recent months?
The residents association have been chasing Strathmore Properties to reappointment the original landscaper. If you have any issues with your area please telephone Strathmore Properties on 01 2107628 to voice your views.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 2:00 am, and is filed under Landscaping News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.