Per Darren's request, outdoor photos/Summer/early Fall....(no snow!) :)
Please keep in mind, our landscaping has been focused on the front, (for now) due to the chickens & puppy in back yard...& 'cause we had to start somewhere! :) A lot of time has been spent by the ice cream widow just regaining control of the overgrown shrubs, plantings etc....from years of neglect....still working on grass growing in front, although much on that was accomplished out back.
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| Ignore the driveway, I keep hoping it disappears altogether...the eventual plan is to put in 2 tracks of pavers and grow grass in the center of the tracks. |
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| This will look horrendous to you all, however when I began the rose hedge was out to the road on the left, and equally about 2' on the right, in the middle of the rose hedge were 2 holly bushes! (yes, Christmas in July around here!) IT took me SO many days of cutting & digging and being scraped to bits by thorns! & they look HORRIBLE now! But I am SURE that next year they will be grand! (there was brick landscaping strips outlining the original hedge, that I uncovered once I really got in there, so this is what I used as a guide to re-establishing the original hedge.) The spot in the middle where the holly once was, I had to transplant & will take some time to fill in. The shrub on the right against the house, which is planted far to close to the house, and off center of the window (which drives me crazy), was out of control as well & grew off to one side, so we agreed to hack it down much smaller & see how it grows back.     |
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| From across the street, Sept 2011 |
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