" We started out here with a big garden that was a little overgrown and Joanne Smallwood, you've done a wonderful job of thinning it out and preserving it. Now, some of the best things we had here, I think, are the trees like this cypress, right?"

" Yes, thank you Bob. The cypress is probably here before the house was even built, and we had several wonderful clusters of these areca palms that we have existing. It helped to create this wonderful jewel of a space. You can feel how cool it is."

" Exactly."

" And it also provides a peek to the architecture"

" Exactly."

" beyond."

" This landscape architecture isn't a question of creating a big lawn in front of the house, but of creating moods, feelings; kind of setting the house itself."

" Exactly, Bob."

" You've taken advantage of all of those palm fronds and added some, right? This is a new coconut, coconut palm. They will get pretty big?"

" Yes, they're actually the---- This is the Dwarf Malayan, but they actually get to be full grown."

" 30 feet or so?"

" 30 feet or so."

" What do we pay to have a little coconut palm like that put in?"

" Approximately 150 dollars more or less."

" That's amazing. That's just amazing. That's wonderful. And then of course, something like the Royal Palm that was already here. It must have been planted 50 years ago."

" Yes, probably, the time when they constructed they cottage."

" Yeah, yeah, it's a marvelous asset. But then, what you've created here is another kind of cool spot in the garden."

" Yes. I think, you know, when we talked about before we looked at bringing the architecture out into the site, in creating this space, you can see how now with the finish result, that is accomplished."

" Yeah."

" And creates a wonderful entry to [unk]"

" The white picket fence carries the house out to the edge, but then you softened it with all of these beautiful plants. Yeah. And then what's your thinking in terms of picking plants close up to the house."

" Well, actually, we've used the blue palm flower and plumbago as a transition element."

" These here, yeah."

" Because this is nice and soft and billowing, and it creates that linkage for the transition."

" Yeah."

" And then this tree that you've gotten in the corner here. Why is it bare?"

" This is a Tabebuia, Bob. It has this wonderful striking gold flower."

" Uh-hmm."

" And we removed the foliage on it when we transplant because it sure is a safer transplant, because it reduces the stress to the tree."

" Okay. [unk] Yeah, exactly."

" And it [unk] very, very quickly."

" Yeah, we don't have to do that up north, but I've mentioned we do a little bit of pruning before we transplant a large tree like this, so it will have yellow blooms on it, right?"

" That's right. And Bob, we continue the same feel with the gold flower from the Tabebuia to the gold flower of the Bush Allamanda, and it's the same bell-shaped yellow."

" Very pretty. You know one thing I love, though, is the paths you've created here."

" Yes, we've started with the formal entry here and the keystone continues and flows to the informal entry of the summer porch. It continues on to the entertainment area."

" Towards the swimming pool, but one thing you've maintained is a little shady spot wherever possible. You've done a beautiful job, Joanne. Thank you so much."

" Bob, it's been our pleasure. We really enjoyed it."

" Very good. Now, let's go over to the area by the carport where we're gonna find Al Stouse, our contractor. I think it was only 3 months ago that we had nothing here to look at except the carport. "

" Just the carport. "

" And now, we've got a new deck and screen panels and extra room on the house really."

" Fantastic, isn't it?"

" Uh-hmm."

" The landscape you got beautiful."

" Yeah, yeah, but this carpentry work is very nice."

" Thank you."

" Remember what this was like?"

" I sure do."

" We had some of those old cranked out aluminum windows."

" Old jalousie windows [unk]"

" And now, we've got a beautifully installed wooden window that's very appropriate to the house."

" That's good."

" And this whole pocket of this backyard was such a---- Well, it was kind of a mess."

" It was. It was really wise."

" There's a big planter here with some scraggly fronds in it and just a lot of overgrown stuff and then a carport to look at and now, we've got a private little courtyard back here."

" It is like a little courtyard back through here."

" Now, all of this worked really just kind of was done in a blitz in the last few days."

" You're right. We hurried up, but it turned out pretty decent."

" This is meant to be an area where you can store old gardening equipment, potting. We still need to put some shelves in there."

" Right."

" And where you can----"

" Rake, shovels, whatever."

" Where you can kind of be a hobbyist with your orchids if you wanted to."

" Sure. Uh-hmm."

" I guess you could hang quite a few of them off the slats."

" You put orchids, vines, yeah, the whole bit."

" Well, what they've brought us is a big clay pot with a bougainvillea vine, and this has a beautiful golden yellow color. The bougainvillea, if properly trained, will just grow on to the slats or the [unk] whatever you wanna call it."

" And just cover right through there."

" It covers the whole areas so that when you look out from the back porch into this area, you won't see automobiles back there."

" It also will conceal our air conditioning unit."

" Exactly."

" Just conceal everything, and if you park your car there, you'll never know it's there."

" Exactly. And then of course, one of the main things that you've built for here is this terrific bench, which is kind of a replica of the carport itself."

" Just like a carport. "

" Yeah."