landscape my back yard

I can’t say that I’ve done anything towards this except to keep watering the trees so that they will survive “summer in the desert.”

I’ve made a lot of progress. My dogs had torn up half my backyard, and on the area they decimated I built a raised garden bed and put down pine straw. Pine straw is AWESOME for a yard with dogs. I highly recommend it. I put the pine straw along the path they’d worn from my back porch to the back gate. I’ve cleaned up some flower beds and put mulch in them, and planted some lovely white hydrangeas.

But what I still need to do is prune back/out the weedy bushes and things growing on the sides of my back yard property. And get rid of a pile of broken bricks in one corner.

We don’t have the $$ for this project, so I am taking it off my list!

I had Scenic View Landscaping do my back yard. It’s so nice to have a nice to hang out now. It’s just incredible how much less dirt is in my house now that the rock is down. I got a small package with two trees and 18 shrubs. Everything is so small right now that I can’t really tell what its going to look like once they are all grown. I can’t wait to see what it looks like once the plants mature.

They are leafing out well! Whew!

So the “bones” of the backyard are now in – 4 larger trees (20 ft tall and 2” diameter trunk) and 6 smaller trees (less than 5 ft tall with less than 1” diameter trunks). Won’t be able to do much more until we put up gates to prevent the dogs from being able to be in the back yard unattended. Chicken run, chicken coop and paying off bills are higher on the list… Still, I’m going to leave this goal here so I don’t forget it.

I’m tossing around the idea of doing this myself. I’d really like to do at least the design.

The baby trees are in the ground, so now all I have to do is keep watering them and suffer through winter – so many months to go before I know if they survived or not!

3 standard size pears and 3 semi-dwarf apple trees to go into the ground tomorrow. Dear Husband pulled the dead bushes out this afternoon. So sad, but you learn to accept that the Desert is a Cruel Mistress… you compost the casualties and move on.

Really have to find a way to exclude the dogs from the yard if we are going to get anything well established.

I no longer have a yard. Maybe someday.

well, actually in process. I had already dug up the old dead stuff but not yet replanted.