Contouring of the land, below.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidaZmYoEkl5Lx8sGsAKu_bnGJb14lSOwawaCqMZrqeAiBYEkQ6K-UA9qoQkbRe92g0j9q_IF3SWzDYi9_Gq9A8vERYcNsHe_RNyHCyWBUKxaq5-JkkRFdfcB9T_dBIgwYK2ympN0gsc8WL/s400/!cid_4733D32B-3238-4DED-A206-73CDF13E710F.jpg)
What to do, what to do?
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeELTXPfJ73KOm2KUAUQ-lgg37nnEBfVWFdJsdLCmeXkNrLBvWRSJjHUm4j8nQuF3YRZn4vof7v-hhsN8aEdXpofzQmpCsyRGYYjdZXg76B8Q6iC5B-MrE9oioFA6QsfSOdLMTYDugLoh/s400/!cid_D0B4DC02-5D53-473C-BC4E-E2EE4D626AB0.jpg)
The most important thing you can do to a Ranchburger?
Let It Out Of Jail.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDhuxSddQh8igiOcpcRSj5wFcOWWP5MW5NrNtNd4I9rNV0s0lb-7FNzgWOMQE3MrXIQ8TuS1sR5zbi-Dd_zfbWunJz39MuSaGLmA-dFRhyphenhyphenJHmrhTdIYf6b9ZRs4-k_EXLwrS-WR0fxXF_/s400/!cid_631C1A8C-E375-43F7-A1CD-65A85ED2323A.jpg)
Remove the rails, and those ratty (Rattus rattus) evergreen
meatball shrubs, which are naked at the bottom and chopped at the top, the builder planted decades ago.
Shall I wax poetic about builders landscape design? Hmm, PUPPET BARBUDA is too busy today.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsdUutfRjhqix3L9KWUAbA9B01tKCZrgf-QV0B8HuSj4qULV_NvVoqqKBG6XNyp1IkgtX174k2ULNj-tO7Mrl6eJLjl-GV7ArRdaX8tIjj0Zxcy9NWpQSdkqgLfApJGmnOEPIzOpVcRvRd/s400/!cid_B4231620-4556-422E-92EE-7A5DE6C5425E.jpg)
Aaaaaaah, the brick was liberated too. This ranch is going country French.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pHKPkm-82LQEEFBYrKUoNEbXY_wMRNEcxJVqwu-qx0u_SPHjLPQ6c60LhvRqZcQnkpW4dYhKfh9Yr8z9QZzDyPQyy_7pUjWIC8Z9oQWwH4hPYiAvCVCLl6lZtgTuv0E9IaL-bpwK99eL/s400/!cid_A10EB06C-0A37-459D-B96C-34259E894D5B.jpg)
Furnishings & Pots aren't 'done' yet. But the Ranchburger is done. Done gone!!
.
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
.
Thank you for sharing your Ranchburger before/after pics Krystol. Love the dogs & your intuitive landscape design. Fabulous.
6 comments:
Painting the brick one of the great things you can do for many rancher, particularly in a neighborhood of brick ranchers. Makes the landscape pop. And let's liberate all ranchers from leggy, overgrown foundation bushes.
ooohh!!! I want to see MORE MORE MORE!!! it looks so fabulous!! MORE!!!
oh...lovely job on the ranch...love the after porch!
I so agree about those leggy foundation plants. Be gone already.
WOW!!!! What a transformation! Who is Krystol??
@landscape designer- I'm just a landscape designer wannabe. Can't quit my day job to follow my heart, so I just inflict my friends and family with constant redo's and reno's. People laugh at my little scale drawings!!
@cote de texas- Hi Joni, don't know if you remember, but I emailed you about the arches. well, they are called crucks. Lots of good information is available in the timberframe construction business
The leggy shrubs were awful. I was able to recycle them into topiaries which are starting to fill out. Sort of a hedge on stilts look,
Post a Comment