Landscape Projects

The day started off with fog and we even had a quick rain shower around 10 AM, which netted the club .03" of rainfall. The course was a little soft the previous weekends rainfall event, so we continued to work on some landscape restoration that has been needed since I arrived in April of 2008. We took a bed near #3 Fairway and #6 Tees that was hideous with overgrown Camellias that had seen better days and replaced those with 3 Japanese Maple "Cutleafs". This specimen of Japanese Maples will get approximately 7' tall and 10' wide. We then spaced Lorapetalum's "Purple Pixies" in between the "Cutleafs" and it should really refresh the area. Here is a picture of the final product.

Across the path from this was the landscape area that backed up to the creek that separated #3 and #5 Green. This area is a work in progress as it is a large area that we will continue to work on throughout the summer and hopefully finish prior to the Grand Opening in August. We began the restoration by adding 419 Bermuda sod along the cart path edge, then with a dry river rock bed, next we installed some Butterfly Bushes along with Lorapetalum "Rubies" to add a variation of color to the area and to tie in to the bed in the picture above. Please take a look as we are in the intial stages of upgrading.

We did take the opportunity this afternoon to mow the overseed at the Clubhouse, and as much we curse overseed in the fall and winter, it is pretty spectacular right now.

The Windermere Turf Department might seem a little excited tomorrow morning as we mow and roll our Bentgrass one final time prior to spraying it out tomorrow at 12:00. For our staff it feels like all the Christmas Eve's you ever experienced rolled into one night. Pictures of the process should be expected tomorrow evening. Thank you for visiting and please let us know if you have any comment or questions.