another landscapiung rampage

look at:   (their site was down earlier...) http://www.orangestreetstudio.com/project-index/residential/bubalo/

pics from awesomeness:

more landscape design .. obsessing finally a hill solution

http://www.robsteinergardens.com/gardens_main.htm

deck integrate with yard stone cement images

mylandscape has wonderful work, inspiring images here

http://www.mylandscapes.co.uk/index.htm

ipe deck (fsc) and demo patio?

we are thin king of sayng goodbye to all the concrete, after a year of living on nothing but old concrete, the appeal has worn off... so have our feet.

landscaping ideas front face

so we have a big ugly sloping yard of unhappy summertime grass needing far too much water and care for my taste.Besides afterall, who wants to stand outside in their front yard caring for grass when the backyard is SO much more inviting- and we ARE all antisocial eichler owners who live in walled off boxes unless invited over for drinks around here... ha. Really, their is too much street traffic to picture the front face as anything but a first appearance/ entrance and it just needs some simple feng shui and xeriscaping. The old sweetgum is really messy, prickly and gnarled, roots climbing over all the grass, tripping innocent passerbys soon and unfortunatley- has made desigjns on our sewer lateral. Tree guys want alot to remove it. uckk. so, after all the contemplating, I will probably remove it... but I need a tall fast growing full shade providing tree for a south facing front in need of lots of shade- hmmm. ( and one that won't get the sewer again) I am stuck here. any ideas anyone?