Thanks for all of the recommendations.

The whole thing is to scale excluding the plants. Those I just copied and pasted some generic plants to fill it in as a general concept. We’d like a large shade tree in the pie part with something underneath, Holly’s or some other trees along the sides and some bushes with flowers underneath.

I think the best advice is to hire a pro to help with good color and size mixing and having different blooming times, etc. Stuff that I’m just out of my element on. Since we’re putting in a lot, I think they’ll be able to turn my amateur work into something that all flows well together and makes for a professional, complete design. I called some LAs today and am waiting on quotes that seem to be in the $250-700. I thanks everyone!

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Posted by NDA13112

New Orleans

Member since Apr 2005

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Posted on 9/10/20 at 9:30 pm to NDA13112

We started from scratch and it was definitely difficult for my wife and I to settle on a layout with a blank slate. We’ve done everything ourselves and with a lot of help from my dad and brother in law.

This is basically where we are now.

The plan is to have a little seating area where the kids house is (the part of the patio that gets afternoon shade), the walkway going through the middle, and and a table and umbrella for the rear area. We also just planted some star jasmine to run along the bottom boards of the house so we don’t see under the house.

We were sick of grass not growing on the sides and it was getting beat up in front of the shed so we went with gravel. Plus, less for me to mow and edge. Hopefully a medium to large shade tree will go in that pie part to eventually provide afternoon shade to the back half of the patio.

We reused some pavers down that whole walkway. Need to order a bit more gravel to this area and a couple other low spots. Also ran conduit ahead of time from both here and the shed to the house for electric. Still need to get down to the that part of the todo list