Windermere Landscaping

Today we will install the wider drive with contrasting color at the hacienda in Windermere. Yesterday saw the end of the installation of most of the plants and the footers for the pedestals that will support the large urns flanking the drive. We're in full monsoon season now with a seventy percent chance of showers. We'll work on with cover in the garage to make our cuts. It's all coming together. The owners are flying in tomorrow and we are trying to have it done before they get here. Hope they'll be on the late flights. Whatever is done, they'll be delighted because the transformation from no landscape to now is huge. Below is a before and after shot.

The town of Windermere where this property is located is so full of lakes that on a map it appears to be a virtual island. These spring-fed lakes are considered pristine waters and are connected by a series of canals. A hundred years ago wealthy Orlandoans would keep camps here to escape on weekends for swimming, boating and fishing. Proximity to the resorts and world class golffing at courses like Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill and Tavistock's Islesworth have made this an enclave for sports celebrities like Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neal as well as anonymous super-rich from all over the world. Despite this, the town has retained much of it's charm with a little village center and many dirt roads, kept that way to keep the lakes clean by avoiding run-off that paved streets would cause. The tree canopy remains largely undisturbed. And in areas like the Hacienda, we are doing our part to increase the tree cover by planting numerous species of shade and flowering trees. Other plants are being added for their ability to attract the three b's- butterflies, bees and birds. When we are done, our acre should be doing its part to produce pleasure, beauty and an upgraded environment on it's little plot of town.