" Well, Ryley it's a pretty nice little fence you've put together for us, but I thought----"

" Yeah."

" it was gonna be a picket fence?"

" Well, I changed that Bob for the simple reason that at the end of the weekend, I like to ahh----sit back and then enjoy the fruits of my labor and I won't be able to do on the----"

" You wouldn't be able to do it on those pickets, yeah."

" They're a little uncomfortable."

" Yeah. Well, this is nice and sturdy. How did you build it?"

" It's pretty simple. I put a piece of pressure-treated stack in the ground for 6 inches deep."

" Uhm."

" To keep any other critters and we'd be unable to climb under it and----"

" Yeah, with the wood chest, yeah."

" Flat to just an inch and a half wide and spaces they are in equal distance, inch and a half."

" And that's a critical part of any good design is to have right proportion."

" Yeah, that's really what makes it."

" What about the cap up here?"

" A cap is just a piece of----2 X 4 that we've ahh ripped in half and----just routed out a 34 in space to receive the slack, right here."

" On the table saw?"

" That's right."

" Yeah."

" And it worked out pretty nice."

" And then galvanized hinges."

" Yeah."

" And a pressure-treated post that's just sunk into the sand [unk]."

" Right."

" About a half or so?"

" 2 feet."

" Two feet, good."

" And then we've got ahh----our brick path going formingly here. What do you call this? A running bond, right?"

" That's right, yeah. This is a running bond pattern."

" Yeah."

" And----"

" I'm simply amazed that the----the joints are staggered against the full brick against the joint----"

" Right."

" and you see that go out."

" Right."

" And he's just had cut one there and tap it into place."

" Yeah."

" Now, is he putting it all in sand?"

" He's putting the whole thing in sand. He's taken the soft material out in this----12 inches of sand that's been tampered down."

" How come that's----not in stone dust?"

" Well,"

" You have devised ahh----kind of a plan for the front garden here that's gonna have some lawn, but primarily it's a little garden the way they might have had back in colonial days, right?"

" Right. A very simple garden and what we're trying to do is to design a style as to have it in keeping with the style of the house----"

" Uhm."

" you know the typical country garden, cottage garden."

" Right."

" With the----the Cape Cod style house----"

" Yeah."

" And what we're doing here is, since this is a shady part of the planting dig,"

" Yeah."

" I'm trying to really focus on shade-loving perennials one being----this one's called Bugbane."

" Bugbane."

" And we place it in here in the corner because it reaches a nice height, almost 3 foot high."

" Yeah."

" The flower is great in the season in September when you don't have much color."

" Oh, nice."

" Now, we move over here to a fairly traditional plant to [unk] to another shade-loving perennial."

" Uhm."

" And it adds a nice texture variation to the Bugbane."

" Right."

" and over here, we have some Veronica and corbels and----"

" So you'll have blue and pink?"

" Also----"

" For color down here, right?"

" And they also wanna some more daylily and also some bleeding hearts."

" But what about herbs and edible things, I mean, early settler----"

" Well----"

" would've had a fence in the yard, so if they can grow there,----"

" Right."

" They're herbs. They're medicinal herbs and maybe some edible things right in their front garden, right?"

" Like this is---- what we're doing is focusing on those type of plants over here. And here, we've introduce some herbs."

" Some sage."

" This is Russian Sage----"

" Uhm."

" and uhm----here we have some Lamb's ear----"

" Yeah."

" which is gonna grow beyond the fence----"

" Uhm."

" It's gonna make a nice nest----"

" Uhm."

" to tie everything together."

" Yeah."

" I also wanna add some lettuce type of plants maybe some basil."