Waukesha
New Construction Project
Story Behind the Project:
This home was built in 2018 in Waukesha, WI.
Type: New Construction
Project 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