Here is a picture from the street right by the mailbox. This picture should capture just about all of the plants in the front yard. In the mailbox bed we have a dwarf teddy juniper and the beginnings of the blackeyed susans that come late summer each year.
In the background right is the Cherokee Brave Dwarf Dogwood. Eventually I would like to create a bed for that area of the yard, but right now I have more pressing issues to contend with.
The bed next to the house has Skip Laurel and Lorapedlum.
Picture of the front beds. Plants: Skip Laurel, Lorapedlum, and Dwarf Magnolia.
Grass. . . kicking it.
This is a picture of the side yard opposite the garage. There is a large bed over here and some of the standard builder landscaping (read Holly) that I transplanted.
Lets make our way to the backyard. Here is the entrance to the backyard and the deck.
Looking up at the new covered porch from the deck. Man there is a lot of wood that needs to be stained.
Looking down from the deck to the backyard. The Parson Juniper is relatively happy and it is doing the job. The lower section is the newly placed pinestraw. I don't know if you remember the post describing the beginning of the project (The Big Kahuna), but the improvements are vast.
Here we are in the backyard looking back at the deck and the hillside. The staircase embedded in the hillside was my project from last Christmas Break. It is made up of 4x4x10 and filled with mulch although, I am thinking about changing that at some point.
10 gallons of Weed Killer. . . $16
5000 sq ft of landscape fabric . . . $135
100 Bales of Pine Straw Delivered . . .$500
Saying goodbye to the nightmare that was my backyard. . . priceless
Heading back up onto the deck. Another angle of the backyard. In the distance you can see the Forsythia.
Inside the covered porch. Got the TV hooked up (shoutout to Brandon for actually doing the work to mount the TV while I watched and drank beer.)
Standing in the kitchen/breakfast nook looking back out towards the covered porch.
3 comments:
excellent first post Bret. You've given us a nice baseline of what is expected by the weekly pics.
so when are we staining the rest of your deck?
My plan is sometime after I get back from the beach, but before I head to the Mtns. A lot of it will depend on the weather.
Post a Comment