The neighbors across the sidestreet that passes our house appear to be spending a small fortune on their flower beds. There was a two-man crew there all day yesterday, removing the metal edging from the flower beds across the front of their house, pulling out the plants from the beds, roto-tilling the soil, adding enormous amounts of new topsoil, and then laying a border of top-quality chiseled stone across the front of the beds where the metal edging had been. Then, the crew put in all new plants, making the beds seem like they had been there for years.
The stone, all by itself, had to have cost several hundred dollars. The labor and the new plants added a considerable sum. It does look nice, but the "chiseled stone" look of almost all new landscaping around this area has begun to wear on me. It's almost obligatory: cedar or redwood decks and the like, coupled with layers of chiseled fieldstone...copied in grand style from HGTV landscaping shows. It's a shame that all these people who are trying to make their homes look unique are, instead, making them look like they all hired the same landscape architect.
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