Outside Updates: A Path Through Tree Roots

We went to Montana for vacation this past summer (which is GORGEOUS, book a trip right now) and saw such beautiful wild flowers! Outside of Glacier National Park, we stayed at the Izaak Walton Inn & Resort in Essex and got inspired by their landscaping.

This was a lovely brick pathway, edged by flowers. Once home, we set about recreating this look in Houston.

Obviously, we the plants have a way to go in terms of growth and winter was especially hard on them (this picture was taken in the fall). 
We scored these white bricks from the side of the road for free and used salvaged bricks that were here when we moved for the edging. We keep a pretty large gaps in between the bricks (mostly because of the amount of white bricks we had available) and then had many challenges with the large tree roots running at ground level. If you look towards the top of the picture you can pick out how the white bricks start to deviate from the herringbone pattern. We didn't want to jeopardize the health of our many trees by hacking these roots to bits to remove them.