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Waukesha New Construction Project
This home was built in 2018 in Waukesha, WI.
Type: New Construction
Year Completed: 2018
Aspects: Final Grade, Stairs, Patio, Retaining wall, Downspout splash pads, Proper Drainage with Swales, Native Plants
Any Specific Challenges: Difficult grade changes between properties and street, clay soils, consistent rain storms keeping yard unworkable
Price Range: $20k – $35k+
Materials Used: Retaining Wall => Field Stone Granite Boulders
Patio => Unilock Series 3000 Mineral Ice Grey
Stoop & Stairs => Brussels Dimensional
Plants: Plants were selected to provide year round attraction, wildlife value, and bloom primarily blue, white, or pink flowers – no yelows or reds.
Trees & Shrubs: Red Cedar, Serviceberry tree, Pagoda Dogwood, Red Dosier Dogwood, Glossy Black Chokeberry, Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle, Hydrangea, Boxwood, Weigela
Perennials: Blue Wild Indigo, Anise Hyssop, Little Bluestem, Pasque Flower, Jacob’s Ladder, Wild Blue Phlox, Large-flowered Beardtongue, Pennsylvania Sedge, Prairie Smoke, Coneflower, Pussytoes, Spotted Bee-Balm
Muskego New Construction Project
This home was built in 2019 in Waukesha, WI.
Type: New Construction
Year Completed: 2019
Aspects: Complete Landscape Master Plan / planting bed design, native plants, wildlife, rainwater management
Any Specific Challenges: Front yard sewer drainage connection
Price Range: $5k – $15k+
Materials Used: Mulch => Brown dyed shredded hardwood
Plants: Plants were selected to provide year round attraction, wildlife value, amazing colorful flowers, fragrant flowers near the front door, and low maintenance.
Trees & Shrubs: Hackberry, ‘Blue Muffin’ Viburnum, Endless Summer Hydrangea, Oakleaf Hydrangea
Perennials: Blue Wild Indigo, Prairie Blazingstar, Butterflyweed, Lavender, Prairie Dropseed, Purple Coneflower, ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ Coneflower, Blue Flag Iris, Prairie Smoke, Northwinds Switch Grass
Glendale Rain Garden
This home was built in 1953 in Glendale, WI.
Type: Drainage Problem / Rain garden
Year Completed: 2020
Aspects: Drainage, flooding, basement flooding, rain garden, native plants, infiltration, improve grading, basement water, foundation issues, rainwater
Any Specific Challenges: Extreme ponding situation, water from neighbors dumping into property, newer apartment complex built nearby changing the entire neighborhood rainwater drainage
Price Range: $12k – $30k+
Materials Used: Engineered Soil => Pervious Soil Mix
Mulch => Double Shredded Hardwood
Plants: Plants were selected to provide filtration, drought tolerance, year round attraction, wildlife value, amazing colorful flowers, and low maintenance.
Trees & Shrubs: Saskatoon Serviceberry
Perennials: Blue Wild Indigo, Prairie Blazingstar, Butterflyweed, Prairie Dropseed, Purple Coneflower, ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ Coneflower, Blue Flag Iris, Pasque Flower, Prairie Smoke, Northwinds Switch Grass, Little bluestem, Large-flowered Beardtongue, Ironweed, New-England Aster, Swamp Milkweed, Wild Petunia
Whitefish Bay Rain Garden
This home was built in 1940 in Whitefish Bay, WI.
Type: Rain Garden, Drainage Solutions, Hardscapes
Year Completed: 2020
Aspects: Rainwater management, rain garden, downspouts, patio, natural stone, permeable patio, rain barrel
Any Specific Challenges: Water draining into basement storage
Price Range: $10k – $25k+
Materials Used: Stair => Natural, local Lannon stone stair
Patio => Natural, local Lannon stone flagstone
Mulch => Double shredded hardwood
Plants: Plants were selected to provide rainwater absorption, year round attraction, wildlife value, amazing colorful flowers, and low maintenance.
Trees & Shrubs: Japanese Maple ‘Bloodgood’
Perennials: Marsh Marigold, Swamp Milkweed, Prairie Phlox, Turtlehead, Prairie Blazingstar, Butterflyweed, Blue Flag Iris, Joe-Pye Weed, Great Blue Lobelia, Anemone, Heartleaf Aster, Brunnera, Black-eyed Susan, Sombrero Flamenco Coneflower, Lady Fern, Wild Geranium, Ligularia
