PATIO PRIVACY AND STREET SIDE CURB APPEAL
BEFORE: New home owner moving from the city desired a landscape with curb appeal, combining evergreen and flowering shrubs and trees.
AFTER: Large flowering shrubs were used as visual barrier to street as client did not want a total block of evergreens.
This landscape renovation project on Cape Neddick was on a very steep hill with no equipment access.
BEFORE: House design warranted using plantings of a smaller mature size. A river stone drip edge was installed around the house.
AFTER: Combination of smaller evergreens, evergreen flowering shrubs, and deciduous flowering shrubs provides year round interest.
![Narrow property line](https://cldesignlandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DSC_7079-1100x730-1.jpg)
BEFORE: Narrow property line right side of house with open view to next door neighbor. Client wanted to block this view.
![Arborvitae provide patio privacy](https://cldesignlandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DSC_7330-1100x730-1.jpg)
AFTER: Row of arborvitae provide privacy patio on right side of property creating a more intimate seating area.
BEFORE: Property setbacks only allowed for narrow lawn area which abutted a wooded area.
![Erosion control mulch is installed](https://cldesignlandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DSC_7333-1100x730-1.jpg)
AFTER: Woods cleared of debris. Erosion control mulch was installed as a naturalizing border with the woods. Privacy arborvitae on north side.
BEFORE: Rough grade had significant slope in all directions.
Privacy plantings on south side and in easterly woods provide privacy for the patio and rear of house. Flowering shrubs provide color.
![Privacy plantings](https://cldesignlandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DSC_7335-1100x730-1.jpg)
AFTER: River birch were planted to soften the white fence. Sod lawn was installed at grade of the new patio. A walkway extension from the patio leads to the gate to the driveway parking area.
![Granite lamp post adds a finishing touch](https://cldesignlandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Granite-lampost-1100x730-1-1024x708.jpg)
Granite lamp post adds finishing touch. Spruce on right side provides visual block of neighbor’s utility area. Client also wanted flowering tree.