New Garden!

We finally took the time this weekend to tackle landscaping the front yard with a new garden. This project actually began long ago when we first bought the house and said, "it would be nice to take out those bushes." If you don't remember, here is a picture of the original shrubbery.

A Shrubbery!

So over the past few weeks I slowly removed the very well established bushes and root balls. some of which took a long time and a lot of digging to get out. At last I had all of the bushes removed and we were ready to plant. But what to plant was the question... enter Diana! After hours of internet research, and even attempting to use graph paper, Diana fell back on what she is best at: arts and crafts. So out came the construction paper, and soon we were looking at a scale model of our front yard complete with movable bushes, plants, and flowers.

Paper Planning

This morning we woke up to a beautiful day and a plan. Off we were to the garden store, which happened to have a good deal this week; 15% off up to 10 items for every non-perishable food item. Well we had more than 10 plants to buy, but that didn't stop Diana. We just bought half of the plants and then went back again later with more food items.

After a few hours of digging, planting, mulching, and watering, the yard was complete. No sooner had we finished when someone pulled over in their car, rolled down their window and said, "looks great! this was long overdue." I'm pretty sure "long overdue" was in terms of the overall history of the house and not since we had moved in. Enjoy the pictures!

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