When you have a Lake house halfway down a steep slope, you have a near heavenly view of the Lake. But correspondingly, you have a difficult terrain to traverse down to your boat dock. What's the solution? Stone slab steps by Ben's Creek Nursery. You can see here the erosion control measures implemented on the … Continue reading Stairway to Heaven
Our guys finished another massive project on the Lake. Stone paver walkways, a patio and firepit patio, outdoor kitchen, irrigation, sod, and a parking pad, ornamented through out with garden beds and fresh plant material. As always, click on any photo for a closer look. First, here are some of the people that made this … Continue reading Hard Work
Our design team and installation crews outdid themselves this time. You are looking at some 3,000 square feet of fescue sod. The walkway is a 4' x 150' Catalina paver walkway. Amidst the trees, this walkway adjunct is a 16' diameter circular Catalina paver patio. The Firepit is 4' in diameter and composed of Colonial … Continue reading Transformation
These are two in-process properties. Finished photos will be posted, but here is a sneak preview. This first property involves the preparation of the soil for lawn seed. Now, we want you to notice something. Ben's Creek certainly has heavy equipment for moving large amounts of dirt and such, and that was certainly used here. … Continue reading On Deck
For those of you paying attention, you know our crews have fashioned life-sized stone Hop Scotch and Chess boards. But a sports court sized mini-soccer field? That's clearly leveling way up on the game construction thing. But our guys were up to the task! The first, and major, problem was an engineering one: The sports … Continue reading Maxi Effort on a Mini Soccer Field
Here is an outdoor kitchen we recently completed. It is embedded in a River Street Lafitt stone paver patio, with matching walkways and Slate Grey Holland Stone borders. The kitchen is coupled with a Chesapeake Grey Dublin stone fire place, which we installed on the lake side of an adjacent patio, along with a new … Continue reading An Open Kitchen
We give you today this yard and garden upgrade from back in the latter part of the summer. We begin with the installation of about 18,000 square feet of Tifway Bermuda sod with a 12 zone Rainbird ESP irrigation system providing coverage of all the turf and ornamental plant bed areas. In the midst of … Continue reading Instant Gardens – and More
