Kingwood Garden Club honors the January Yard of the Month

The Kingwood Garden Club is proud to announce the January Yard-of-the-Month selection.

The lovely landscaped yard of Richard and Debbie White is located in the Woodstream Village at 3206 Pine Alcove Court.

The homeowners shared that this landscape has evolved over a period of eleven years. They began with a builders grade landscape to create this oasis in the subdivision.

They began with tropical plantings, but with a snowy glancing blow of old man winter, they didnt survive.

Since then they have worked to naturalize their landscape. They have developed multiple separate, but coordinated, planting areas that incorporate rock beds, Tuscany type jars and jugs planted in the beds, river rock streams and weaving walkways of brick, rock and slate.

Richard and Debbie both take pride in developing the individual areas of their yard, naming one area the square, which utilizes a fountain and water rocks to replicate a dry river bed.

The foundational plantings include a giant sago palm, a Texas Mountain Laurel, dwarf umbrella Indian Hawthorn bushes and a large knock-out rose bush.

These plantings are supplemented with bottlebrush bushes, foxtail ferns, African Iris plants, Aganthepus and Nandina bushes.

The Whites add seasonal decorations, plantings, and a whimsical rabbit who watches over the scape.

The winter plantings included cabbage, kale, Johnny jump-up, pansies, cyclamen and snapdragons. The homeowners have enjoyed the new flower beds in the backyard and have added vintage style copper low voltage lighting that adds a soft glow to the landscape in the evening.

Excerpt from:
Kingwood Garden Club honors the January Yard of the Month