Landscaping

Well this is long overdue, seeing as how we finished the landscaping a week and a half ago. I had promised the after pictures but wasn't too quick getting them up because they aren't all that impressive. But I was reminded by Alissa's Plant a tree post so here they are.

Our flower bed had been taken over by weeds. We actually hired a guy to plant a bunch of stuff in it a year ago but he mostly just planted a bunch of puny pansies. You couldn't even see them from the street because of our retaining wall. So Kelly ripped them out, along with all the weeds. Then we purchased some new bushes and shrubs and did some rearranging. We are far from botanists -- anything related to plants I really hated in my biology classes. So it was hard to pick stuff that would thrive with little maintenance and also not grow out of control. We talked to about 3 different plant people and we think we picked some stuff that will make our flower bed look full in a couple of years. I wanted some color contrast so there are some white, red, and purple leaves and the day lillies will bloom yellow I think most of the spring/summer.

Kelly hard at work.



Cason thought it was pretty cool to be able to use a real "shubul". No, I have no idea why he insisted on wearing his swim trunks.





Then he ended up just mixing a bunch of dirt, sticks, and rocks into his bucket of water. He later made a lovely mud concoction in his water table out back.



Done planting and ready for mulch.



The next day Cason decided to carry our security sign all around in lieu of digging.





Spreading out the mulch.



The finished product. We are told that in 2-3 years, all of the bushes will have gotten much larger and fill up the area. Let's hope so.



These look kind of sad right now but they are day lillies and we were told they would look great most of the year.



If we picked the wrong plants, please break it to us gently!