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Discussing the Home's Exterior
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" is a pretty nice though and you've put together fourth but I thought it was going to be a picket fence. Well I'd say is that Bob. It's simple reason that at the end of the week allies well I sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labor and -- look good on those picket -- comfortable yeah well this is nice and sturdy how did you build it. It's pretty simple I put a -- press the tape is stuck in the ground for a six inches that the keep -- and credits and we've been able to climb under it yeah and with -- slats or just an inch and a half wide in spaces there an equal distance Internet now and that's a critical part of any good design to have the right proportions -- that's really what makes -- what about the cap -- happens yesterday adhesive tried to -- for -- ripped -- half. And I just routed out of three slaughtered in space to receive the -- that it exhausts that's right yeah. And I worked out pretty nice and galvanized hinges are yeah pressure treated post its just into the sand laden right now for two feet two feet good. And then we've got are brick path going. Swimming here. Not what do you call -- a running bond right that's right out of the running bond pattern yeah. And now simply means that these -- joints are staggered against the full brick against the joint that. Throughout. Ride he's just -- it. Cut when and tapped into place out as he put it all and sand. But from the whole thing again he's taken a soft material out and it's not twelve inches and there's been tampered down how come not not in stone dust we're out in the early days indicate they didn't have any stone dust and we've got many innocent material grounds it's with a twelve inches it's Clinton sufficient and -- the it's not get it's not going to sink onion of course the other trick is to have a full two by this is brought a two by six -- right as it seeks to hold. Bassist from moving sideways as pressure treated as well that's beautiful job. You have devised. Kind of a plan for the front garden here that's going to pass them on but primarily it's a little garden where they might have had back in colonial days."
" Ray and very simple all right and Angela we're trying to do lifted Einstein Ellis added in keeping with the style of the house -- the typical country garden cottage garden right click and that Cape Cod style house and what we're doing here. It's consistent that's shade part of planting dead yeah and trying still. Really focus find shade loving perennials one being Brooklyn called rumpled but days and we place here in the corner because it reaches a nice -- Almost three foot height -- flowers late in the season in September when you learn how much -- and he's with -- move over here it's Iraq. Fairly traditional plans to cut another shade loving perennial. In -- the nice texture. Variations in the -- thing right. And I ever hear it hasn't Veronica. And coral bells and clean -- blue and -- and erect and help someone plant some more and daily. And also some believing."
" But what about herbs and edible things -- means early settlers would have had a fenced in yard so that they can grow their. -- or herbs or medicinal herbs and maybe some edible things right in the front garden right."
" this is what we're doing is focusing on those type of plants that are here. And clearly been produced some herbs some say -- is -- AG and room. Here we have them on. Lands the -- which is going to blow. Out beyond the plants can make nice massive tie everything together yet alkaline and son -- type of plants and a maybe some -- home."