Kevin Morisawa promised me 30 days ago that our new lawn in Land Park would be finished within a month, and he was right on the money. My home, like many homes in Land Park, was built a long time ago, 61 years ago to be exact. That's almost as old as I am. I doubt that the lawn has ever been re-sodded during those years.
Stuff flies in, birds drop seeds, squirrels plant nuts, time takes its toll and, before you know it, weeds and Bermuda grass can take over a lawn. We treat the lawn in the spring to prevent crabgrass and regularly fertilize it, but our old lawn looked terrible. It looked like the lawn of a foreclosure home.
We chose Bolero Plus-TM, which has a bit of a blue / green hue to it. It thrives in either shade or sun. That was a big consideration because our yard has trees. It's a 90 / 10 mix of dwarf fescue and bluegrass.
The sod delivery truck showed up at 9 AM yesterday morning with the load. As they stacked the sod in front of the house, a woman walked by with two big dogs. She looked at me and exclaimed, "You're putting down sod??" Why, yes, we are. Then she put her nose in the air, spun around on her heels and sniffed before wandering off, "Well, I thought it was going to be a natural yard."
Hey, I'm just as green as the next person, maybe more so. The implication was I am not. If I catch her dogs doing their duty on my new lawn, I will turn on the sprinklers.
I absolutely love our new Japanese maple tree. It's a Bloodgood and will grow to about 25-feet. You can see it in the top photo, but it's a lot taller than it looks. The leaves are a deep purple-red and, fortunately, fall is the optimum time to plant this type of tree. What I'm really relieved about is I will never need to weed that ugly old rose garden again.
Here are the before and after photos of the front yard. The first photo was shot in the morning so the roof cast a shadow:
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