landscape my yard

This is an ongoing thing that I don’t know will ever be complete. It’s like having a goal to do the laundry. I’ve moved some lilies from a bed next to the house to a new bed on the side of the garage. Now I want to see if I can get some daffodil bulbs to put in between the lilies.

I want to level off a piece of land behind my garage and put a patio there and maybe a fire pit. maybe I’ll get some time to start working on that next summer. Now it’s starting to get too cold for all this outside work. Before everything freezes though I have a lot of brush I want to clean up and some wood from that old pine that I want to split up and get rid of.

I just hope they grow.

The whole backyard is done… I still need to do the side and front. That might have to wait until spring :)

We moved into our new house 3 weeks ago. We bought the house off an estate sale and no one has lived in the house for 5-6 months. The yard has become really overgrown.

It is a really daunting task when I look at the whole thing so I have been trying to picture it as small tasks. I have done the back of the house, the left side of the yard and the back of the back yard. We put out an epic amount of yard waste for pick up.

The right side of the yard, outside of the fence, side of house and front yard are left. All of which are huge jobs.

Ugh! Joys of owning your own home!

I work be very very happy if my backyard was very nice, my sanctuary from the world. Replacing the chain link with a privacy fence would be a great start.

I was finally able to weed, mow, plant some ivy in the beds, plant my herb and veg containers, and put down mulch. I want to replace my furniture but I am waiting for my uncle to finish making my chairs and table.I planted Nandinas and a new climbing rose in the front yard and cleaned my porch. The work never ends, but luckily I enjoy this kind of thing.

we are moving at the end of the summer. I don’t think I need to worry about this one anymore, since it won’t be “my” yard any longer.

Mom & I got some of those hanging tomato planters and are hanging some tomatoes. The Boy, who got to help us fill them with soil thinks this is, “one of the most asinine things you have done in a long time.” I got treated to a lecture about root systems and sun.

I sure hope these things work, because I want him to eat his words in tomatoes :D I also put in some herbs.

The pond & fountain are ready for the year. Next I start on planters… I am also looking at putting in a bird feeder or two. The garden with the lilac bush border and the water elements is really starting to attract birds. A sign if a good garden in my opinion. Today I saw a chipmunk and rabbits, in addition to cardinals, robins, wrens, a crow, and possibly a finch. Quite an assortment for a ranch house subdivision!

I am getting more done at Mom’s house then mine. I spend more time there, but I need to do some things at my house soon. Manana…

Almost every Memorial Day weekend I overhaul the back yard. But this year, I also have to work on the front and do a major change in landscaping. My neighbor’s Magnolia tree has a disease and it has spread to my bushes. I have started digging them up and I will be replacing them and will periodically treat the new bushes with an anti-fungal.I’ll post the before and after pics.

It is time to get back to work on this goal. In addition, I am doing some work at my Mom’s. I am not going to put in a vegetable garden in my yard this year. I am at Mom’s often enough that I am going to put it in her yard, we are doing container gardening for now.

It looks like I will need some plumbing work at my house which may involve ripping up two beds and part of the yard. I am waiting on those two beds until I know exactly what is being done. Perhaps I will wind up starting from scratch versus renewing.

This Sunday we are working on this a little more. The residents of the house have already worked to fix up the front flower garden and this Sunday we’re working on cleaning up the vegetable garden.