Monday, August 6, 2012

Landscaping

For a long time now I've been wanting to do something to the front flower beds to make them look nicer, but number 1 - I was lazy, number 2 - I didn't know what I wanted to do.

Here's how the front yard started out:


When the house was built, they planted bushes and laid down pine needles and that was all of the landscaping. After 2 years of living here, I finally got rid of the pine needles and did some work. Well, with the help of my mother of course (she worked in a nursery growing up so she knows a lot about plants).

The first thing we did was weeding and digging up the old small bushes because they had died. I thought it was strange that they had died, but once we started digging we figured out why... The flower beds were full of concrete, brick and rocks. What could grow in that?! We planted some new bushes and planted some flowers. I snapped these pictures while we were digging holes for the flowers:




Craziness... After we dug all that up and planted everything, we mulched and watered. Things are looking gorgeous now!


As you can see on the right, I took some leftover bricks from when the house was built to create a divider between the grass and the flower beds. It wasn't that much work, but I really like the look and hey, it was free!


In June, I bought some patio furniture on sale at Target and I love it. :)


The blue pillows came from Home Depot and were a birthday present from my mom.


After pouring a bunch of new soil in, I'm hoping the new bushes won't die like the old ones.


I bought that hose storage thingy (that's a technical term) and it's been great at wrangling the heavy water hose.


It's so nice to pull up to well-manicured flower beds after work each day instead of the ugly before, haha. :)

7 comments:

The Atwoods said...

Love it!!! :)

Unknown said...

Looks great!! I do not have a green thumb but love a well-manicured yard!! Great job!

Annie ~ Red Roses and Crystal said...

A few new plants and mulch can make the world of difference to a front garden. As you say Morgan its lovely to pull into a driveway to be welcomed by ones garden.
xx

Elle Sees said...

it turned out great

Unknown said...

Looks great, love the little garden you guys have now - really looks so pretty!
xx

xoxo Bree
The Urban Umbrella

http://www.theurbanumbrella.com/

Heather{Our Life In a Click} said...

It all looks beautiful! Great job! I love the 'free' brick border!! That is crazy about all that you dug up but I'm not surprised.

Faith said...

it looks so good! you truly put me to shame. i need to get my butt in gear!!