Landscape Project

As my last post eluded to, the outside of our house is/has been in need of some lovin' and the time has come to finally give it some attention.

We (primarily BEG but RHETT, George and I helped some) worked all last weekend in the flower beds. We planted Indian Hawthorns in the front left flower bed to match the right one bed that we planted last year, moved the edging to make the flower beds smaller and appear less "empty" (they were just too big and always looked blah), and planted 4 Pear trees along the side of the house. Since the pine tree fell last year the side of the house has been pitiful looking. Some grass is finally starting to grow where the tree once was and in the surrounding areas.

Right Side Before (notice the cement edging)

Right Side After

(we moved the Sweet Olive tree and added "real" edging further back)

Side note: Another reason why the Garrett's and the previous owner's the Terry's would not be friends: it was brought to our attention by our neighbors that the Terry's dug up azaelas that had been there since the house was built and planted rose bushes!!! News flash: you do NOT rip up azaelas EVER but if you happen to have a moment of ignorance and do, you SURE do NOT replace them with rose bushes!

We went to a friend's house yesterday after work and took some pinestraw that we will put in the front flower beds and along the side of the house where the new trees are. As we have determined prior to this gardening endeavor, gardening is not my husband and I's strong point so we will leave our gardening to a few Indian Hawthorn shrubs, a hanging basket, 6 pots on the front porch and a red pepper plant! Hopefully we can keep these few things alive but I'm making no promises!

The beds really do look nice. I've posted some pics so you can see our work. I even remembered to take some before pictures!!

The pets helping, ha!

BEG digging up old azaela roots

What the left bed looked like before:

And the left bed after:

We are going to get some sod on Tuesday once we are back from Abilene to put where the edging used to be and to complete our exterior makeover.

Until next time.

CMG