Obviously, our primary focus was the front landscape when the house was built. You've seen the transformation there over the last 14 years so we'll show you what we've been working on behind the house. A lot of changes over the years in this area and it continues to change as the gardens are expanded every year and the planting continues!



This is the view if you were standing on our deck and looking to the east toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. The pond was installed during the summer of 1995 with a wooden plank walkway around the perimeter and a gazebo was constructed the following year.



This photo was taken in the fall of 1999 with some of the trees and shrubs that have been planted along the pond's edge in the last five years. A hedgerow of White Pines was planted from the road along the edge of the field all the way to the pond area when the house was built. A few of the trees which were added along the back of the pond include: Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera 'Thundercloud'), Variegated Japanese Privet (Ligustrum japonicum 'Variegatum'), and several Viburnums - (Viburnum sieboldii 'Seneca') and (Viburnum setigerum 'Aurantiacum'), on the left.