Wildlife Gardening: Desert yard (in progress), 1 by Equilibrium

Equilibrium wrote:
Husband is thrilled so I have started a total of 10 of these areas on the property and some of them are huge and not just to accent an area. One area is at least a hundred feet long. I'd photograph that but I'm still in the trenching process. Trenching is very labor intensive and since I'm the one-man labor force, I get to it when I can but it will be finished by fall. I am going ot go back and create another area around the evergreen plantings but that will have to wait till next year.

Other than that, I ordered chunks of limestone and had a simple bench made and delivered here for one of my "landscaped areas". The goal is to remove the kids' sandbox (they aren't really using it for much of anything these days so I am going to have bricklayers come and create the beginnings of a 4'-5' deep pond with an eight inch shelf around the edge for plants. The new "decorative" pond will rise out of the ground with a "matching" limestone sill using the same brick around the patio which is the same brick to the house. Must begin to pull in all design elements! I read that somewhere. We'll need to pour footings and such for the brick but hubby approved the "landscape design". I'm going with native fish in that pond. As you can see, the grass is dead in the photo but I have since removed the grass and am ready to trench to add that "decorative" trim.