Showing posts with label landscaping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscaping. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

A New Look

For a few years now I have wanted to do some landscaping - major landscaping. Our house was one of the last ones built and it seems they had leftover shrubs and they just threw them all in our yard! Our house was green (which we chose) but then we had gobs of neon green shrubs! I hated them. So last week we decided to do some major work in our yard. My wonderful husband pulled out 14 shrubs! 14! He was just a wee bit tired after that. After ripping them out I planted a small annual garden and then planted some rose bushes, 2 gardenias, an azalea bush and then several other perennials. I think we planted around 60 plants give or take. But we love it! Taking out those bushes opened up the front of our house and added so much color!  Hopefully everything will take off and then next year we will tackle the back yard! :)

see all the green and then the two bushes right in front of the columns hiding our front porch?!

see the ugly neon bushes?!


Look at all those bushes!

Ripping them out! He loves me! 

After…my little annual bed. I don't know much about gardening but hopefully I picked things that are hardy!

Look you can see our porch! And my planters that you could never see before! To the left will be the rose garden and to the right are the gardenias and azaleas. 
Finished! We love how open our house feels now. 

Our cute little "helper" - he stayed outside with us almost the whole day. He is so cute! 





Friday, July 29, 2011

Flowers!

You'll remember back in the spring we planted some flowers on our retaining wall. Well for a few weeks now we've had some blooms! We don't have a plethora of flowers blooming but we do have a few that are popping up. It is exciting to wake up and see at least one or two out my bedroom window. Here's a picture of a few we've had so far. One day (or eventually one year) I envision the wall being full of flowers!



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Saturday, May 07, 2011

Sprouts

A few weeks ago I posted that we had planted some seeds in hopes that we would one day this summer have some flowers. As of right now we have some sprouts! Hopefully one day in a couple of months we will have some flowers!



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Friday, April 15, 2011

Before

Last weekend we cleaned off our retaining wall and planted some seeds in hopes that one day we will have beautiful flowers. Not sure if anything will grow but at least we tried. It was fun to spend the day working with my husband in the "garden." Here is a before shot well not before we cleaned it but after we cleaned and before all the flowers bloom. Got it?



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a cute picture of Jack. Look at his cute little crocs!


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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Little Helper

Jesse loves to "help" Billy mow the grass. He couldn't wait to get out there and help his daddy mow the grass. He told Billy that his mower needed a new "pull thing," you know the cord that you pull to start it. So cute. Anyway, he followed his daddy all over the yard. I don't know how many times Billy had to tell him to move over or get behind him. He loves helping his daddy. That night he was so proud he just kept talking about how he helped his daddy mow the grass. Love that little boy. I hope one day he really will love to help daddy mow the grass!



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