We are glad to present to Craig and Lingling Green of 3419 Andover Street with this month’s Beauty Spot Award.
The yard has been evolving so much in the last couple of years and it is a beautiful work in progress. When you come up Andover where it dead ends into Cornwall, you look directly at their front yard. A wonderful large boulder in a round bed is surrounded by Black-Eyed Susans and Coneflowers and adds a bright splash of color in the center of the yard. To the left is a Japanese Maple, a fuschia Crepe Myrtle and to the right a Cherry tree. All of these areas have had slate/stone walls built around them to define the round beds, which adds both height, depth and balanced dimensions to their yard.
Newer additions include 2 lovely Fig trees and 2 Japanese Snowbells close to the street in the berm area, and we can’t wait to see how they grow in the next few years!
A newer addition with great eye appeal in these days of going greener and growing our own food, is a beautiful arbor with Japanese pumpkins and cucumbers. A great new look as the vines are growing completely over the top! To each side of the arbor are kumquats and tomatoes in pots.
Of course, the rose garden to the right of the arbor keeps more traditional beauty alive and well, with multiple varieties in the white fenced bed, while surrounded by Bearded Iris, Peonies, Lilies of the Valley, lavender Hydrangeas, and Black-eyed Susans. It has grown so beautifully since it was started!
The front of the house offers its own charm as well, with incredible hostas, whose stems and leaves defy gravity with their size! The diversity is impressive as well, with Nandinas, Cannas, Stargazer Lilies, and a Wisteria climbing up the middle of the wall in the front as well.
This yard is continuing to evolve and we look forward to seeing whatever they do next!
