Landscaping

It's been a slow week on the pool - I guess pool builders do Thanksgiving too. Seeing there weren't too many workers around, we got started on landscaping the front side of the pool. I got my slave to move all the leftover pavers into the outside passageway to the pool. She loved sifting the stones out of the old flower beds to use to fill the gaps between the pavers.

We took advantage of the landscaping to correct some previous planting errors. These Bromeliads where on the south west side of the house. I cut down several trees on that side to open up the sunlight to the pool which exposed these to full sun and they didn't like it. They slowly changed from a dark green speckeled with red to a pale yellow. Hopefully they'll  like the cool North side of the house better.

Another fix was to move some sun loving shrubs (Gardenia, Hibiscus, & Hydrangeas) from the shadows (most were where the Bromeliads are now). A few new plants were added in between
the old ones.