Re: [gardeners] leaves
pennyx1@juno.com (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:51:09 -0500
Matt, My son-in-law, Gino, has created two of the handsomest patios
imaginable, at his home in St.Louis. (His father was a mason who helped
to build every bridge and hospital in Manhattan, going back a few
years...)
The front patio is made of 12 or 14 inch white paving stones. It is
bordered
by a resurrected antique iron fence painted white, and he did run a
hollow
tube underneath so he could feed electricity to anything out there ...
The rear patio is made of bricks laid out in a fan shape, quarter of a
circle
with the radius of about 20 feet. He utilized both old and new bricks,
which
in the end resulted in an 'established' look. He bordered it with a
semicircular
flower bed 18" deep, irrigated by a hidden soaker hose on a clock in the
garage.
The man is a fanatic for accuracy, whatever he tackles. And he did the
work in
his "spare time" ...
He has just this minute left for the airport, returning to St.Louis
tonight.
Giving him the benefit of 2 or 3 days to catch up at home, I shall query
him
about the foundation for your patio under the two trees. Please just
refresh
my memory about how much room you expect to leave around the tree
trunks so as to avoid smothering the trees themselves, and/or a future
upheaval of roots upsetting the patio. Oh yes, and which paving medium
did you expect to use?
Penny, NY
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