Landscaping the Pool Area

The brief to the Landscaper was fairly simple. Give me a formal kitchen herb garden. They nailed it!
We went from this...... 


and slowly transformed it.....






Into this.......





I am beside myself with happiness because it is exactly what I pictured!  All those squares (apart from the outside ones that are filled with mondo grass) are now filled with herbs that should grow very happily.  We have planted ground cover gardenia below the retaining wall and have planted spider lillies along the pool edge.  The two pots contain blueberries.

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