Yard work March 24-25 2012

We worked on Steves front yard this past weekend.
Friday we walked around the front yard, deciding basically to rip almost everything except the roses out, so all of the shrubbery and such, then we would be replacing many of the shrubs with more colorful bushes and flowers.

As we were looking we noticed that one of the trees near the front door died.. leaves still on it, but they were very crispy... so we will have to have someone come out to take them out, that is not something that we want to tackle.
Across on the other side is a tree that we do not want, it does not offer much shade, so we (well somone else)  will be taking it out. On both sides of the front walk we will plant Japanese Maple trees which will look so lovely.


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AFTER

We ripped up quite a bit of shrubbery...



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After

Big bush is gone, alont with some smaller bushes and other plants.

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AFTER

6 shrubs gone in front of the tree in front of the windows - this tree will be taken out and will be replaced with a Japanese maple. and some other flowers.

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2 shrubs taken out along with some "monkey grass"  the tree on the right hand side will be removed since it is dead/dying... and we will have a japanese maple to replace it. Flowers will be planted along the window. :)

THE BIG BUSH:

BEFORE

AFTER

THE SHOVEL:
While tearing out some of the shrubbery, the poor shovel got bent.
so we had to make an "emergency run" to Ace to get another shovel, so we could finish the job.

Planting the hydrangia... it will look so wonderful when it grows big :)



THE BACKYARD.

We planted another hydrangia in one of the back gardens, it will look so nice when it grows  it will be right near the window, and will be so pretty. :)

Yellow Roses ... so pretty! :)



Red rose has bloomed

Steves Apple tree is coming back! I think it heard us saying that we were going to tear it out. :) we'll see if it survives.. :)

Bud

The blackberry bush has started to bloom! - 2 blooms!! :)

Peach Tree is doing fantastic!! :)

Fig is doing great!! Its really growing! :)

The front of the house - Its going to look like a totally new house  when the two trees by the front walkway are gone. I think it already looks great, but I cannot wait to add more color :) so exciting :)

Planting Flowers in Garden

 

Sunday afternoon we decided to plant some seeds that I  (Taylor) got.
I ordered some seeds from a lady here in dfw area, off of Etsy.
I got Dill, Marigolds and Cosmos.
 I am so excited that I was able to plant them in Steve's garden, and be able to watch them grow :)

Starting off:
the area that we put them in had a lot of "baby weeds"--- we cleared it out not too long ago, and the rains came, then there they are spreading back up.. so we'll have to make sure to keep an eye on that.
So we once again cleared it out and worked the dirt, got rid of alot of just old roots and acorns, and just stuff that would hinder our nice little seeds to grow.

Then started making little "trenches"

and began to plant.

Sprinkling the seeds.

Found a creepy little bug...

Steve planting some seeds....

all planted, now just a matter of waiting.

Update on the other plants that we planted a few weeks ago:

Fig tree-- has quite abit of growth, leaves and such. - definitely fast growing.

blackberry, has grown some

Raspberry, has grown a little

Blueberry has quite a bit of new little blooms.

We will see how it all does :) it will be fun, Im glad we were able to get some flowers in the garden :) will be very good, im very excited about it all. :)