" The idea was to kind of take this motif, the diamond-shaped window, and transfer it into the courtyard. Here you see it in blue stock."

" It breaks up this nice."

" The straight pathway nicely. It's a good."

" Exactly."

" Design idea."

" And then this, when this grows up, for example, this honeysuckle, it will take a long time I suppose, but it'll be trained on an arch to really create a feeling of privacy for a little mini courtyard garden for the cabin, and then all of this space is the actual garden for the house."

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" How do you like this facade?"

" The facade is really nice. Those scalloped shingles and the trim on the windows add a nice Victorian cut for the house."

" They sure do."

" That's a good design."

" And the color scheme I think works really well. The stone, green grays of the field with all these pinks and burgundies. Yeah. And then what we've done here is to take that same diamond shape and blow it up, and that's essentially what we have for our courtyard. We've got a portion of the diamond here blown up to about 30 feet, and then back to a 4-foot diamond again. Here is a focus in a center of it with an herb garden and then these wonderful low-voltage light and so it looks like."

" The lighting is nice. It'll be especially pretty when it's weathered and gets."

" Yeah."

" A nice patina on it."

" For sure. And here's Fred now. Fred, you are still watering I see."

" Yes, Bob. We're trying to keep these alive now that Mother Nature has stopped the rain."

" Sure. Let me tell you. The terrace is now months old and I was checking it yesterday to see if any of this bluestone had moved around. Good job. It's nice and solid."

" Yes. We've installed a stone dust, a bluestone dust."

" Into the joists. We water it in. We sweep it in."

" Right in there. Yeah."

" Yeah."

" And that keeps it from moving around."

" Bounds it right up really tightly."

" Yeah. It's a wonderful treatment here how you've taken this one large bluestone and cut it where the diamond shape would end in a point. We've made a transition into a square so that that's our front."

" And it creates a nice entry."

" And this is another wonderful little triangular space that is mostly pink roses and what do you call those tall, deep pink flowers back there?"

" That's an annual called Cleome and she'll grow about 4 or 5 feet tall."

" Yeah. Very pretty. Don't you love this fence? I got to tell you I have been driving for years by a house on Cape Cod that has a fence like this and so I copied it. I asked Riley just to downscale it to about 3/5 scale and so we've made these pedestals, and the way this works is that we simply have moss baskets that can have annuals in them, and they sit in a shelf inside this pedestal base."

" And it's nice. You'll be able to change the flowers on a seasonal basis."

" Sure. Or you can stick something in for color when you feel like it."

" At Christmas, you could put little."

" Christmas trees."

" Little pine trees."

" Yes exactly."

" Or Christmas trees. Yeah. And then the idea with the fence is that the scale is chunky. Instead of using a 2 by 4, we make it with a 2 by 6, and these 1 by 6s are spread far enough apart that, you know, there's one on the backside to give you a little bit of privacy, and can you see."

" It's got a lovely swoop to it."

" It's got a swoop to it."

" Creating a nice wave feeling."

" Sure. Exactly. If you had a lot of it, if you drove by it, you'd see a wave effect. Yeah."

" What we have here is a rose of Sharon, a single white with a burgundy throat called Red Heart."

" And we've complemented the trim on the windows."

" Sure."

" With the color in the rose of Sharon. This plant will grow 15 or 18 feet tall."

" Yeah."

" And we want to keep it trimmed to about 5 or 6 feet in diameter and to help soften some of the vertical in this on the house and still complement some of the color that we have up top on the second floor."

" As long as it doesn't hide my scalloped shingles on the gable end and the verge board and all those details and all that, you know, okay?"

" Bob, I promise you well."