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Our landscape is a mixture of pervious paving and perennial
plants. The idea is to allow water to percolate into the ground as much as
possible, while also reducing how much water, fertilizers and pesticides we need
to keep an attractive landscape. As you can see in the drawing , there is
very hot area, a small sunny patch, two areas of some shade, two areas of much
shade, and one area of deep shade. Each area must have plants adopted to
that microclimate.
Our landscape is also divided up into "rooms" that
to some degree line up with areas of the house.
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Key to the numbers on the diagram
- This walkway is broken concrete salvaged from our site. The front
porch is a 3" concrete slab with a Trex railing.
- The driveway is Ecostone pervious pavers.
- This walkway and most of the others are slate. The porch is concrete
with a Trex rail.
- The top of our rainwater tank is also a patio, which is the warmest place on
our lot. It is our only completely non-pervious surface.
- The south side brick wall is reclaimed brick from the old house, the area
below is granite boulders which hold a hot, dry landscape. On the east
side of the rainwater tank, there is a stairway, we call the "goat
path", carved out of rocks and old bricks.
- This area is to be a summer patio in the future because its not a hot at the
rainwater patio. It is surrounded by a rubble concrete wall, that was
salvaged from nearby places in Seattle.
- Here are our compost bin, our shed for the "brown" material needed
to mix with food waste, and a place to store our yard waste bins.
- This is our meditation garden. Its the quietest, most private place on our
lot.
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