Our front yard is well, BLAH. When we bought the house in April, in 3 days it will be the 1 year mark! The house had a new roof, new gutters, fresh paint all over the outside.. The yard, nothing.. notta.. zip. Just a bush that actually is very pretty when it blooms.
Zak and I have never planted a flower. EVER. Neither one of us. Now I have grown a flower in a flower pot at school maybe. We had been planning our landscape for weeks. I said lets just get a professional to do the entire thing. Hubz said. NO, we can do it. We read. We scoped out home depot and lows. We read some more. We researched. We googled pictures. We drew plans and thoughts. Then the day came and I was nervous! We changed out plans at last min. REALLY last min. As in standing in the yard with the shovel last min. We spray painted the outline of our plan then we dug the trench for the bricks and then off to home depot we went. After 3 carts and the Hubz debit card, after loading in the truck and home we went. It was time to start becoming professional gardeners. Actually lets say professional landscape designer since we are not sure if we have the green thumb to keep the flowers alive. We worked on this till midnight. Come to find out. I am good at planting flowers and bushes. Come to find out I LOVED IT! Relaxing!!
My first hole, my first plant, our house's first bush!
It is much prettier in the day but you get the point. We still have a tone more to do as for the landscaping. We have another one of these gardens to make and a bench (that we got today) will go in between them (since our porch is not large enough for rocking chairs) Of course more landscape details such as a fountain and stepping stones. Some taller bushes/trees at the far end of the house as well. For now, this will do. I want to wait to make sure we can keep flowers alive before we plant more flowers. Does anyone know how long I need to wait to see if we have the green thumb. does 2 weeks sound ok?
