It is so exciting to see some things finally start happening on the outside of our house. Last year, we simply tried to get our grass green and mowed while we were working on the inside of the house. Thanks to much help from David Conklin, most of our huge, overgrown trees & bushes were removed from the house. Thanks to the help of the Stubblefield landscaping team, our grass actually looked decent last year. I posted the "before" picture again to help you understand just how much has changed on the front of our house since we got it!
This year, we have been continuing the uprooting of what had become overgrown and what had been hijacking the attention when you looked at the front of the house. Tim did so great to get the large boxwood shrubs uprooted from the planter bed in front of the house. We simply moved them to the East side of our house in our planter bed. After Tim did all of that hard work, Makenzie and I spent a very hot Saturday morning pulling up the 5" of lava rock that lined that planter and breaking up the soil in the bed to get it ready for some plants!
In addition, my mom and I spent another Saturday morning digging up what is now our curved planter bed in front of the house. Thankfully, God gave us a beautiful day to get it all dug up. A few days later, the stump grinders came an actually got it ready for the plants to actually go in!
The next spot we dug up was the planter bed on the West side of our house, including transplanting the little bush in the picture below to the back yard. However, some of the biggest changes to the outside of our house have come in what we have simply taken away. Tim & my dad worked to remove a huge, dead bush from the East side of our house (on the left side of the before picture) that didn't survive our rough winter. Also, Tim absolutely man-handled the massive bush on the West corner of the house that is about to take over the garage in our before picture. It has been amazing to see how much it has opened up the front of our house by simply taking away those huge bushes.
Oh, did I mention that the middle section of gravel on the side of our house is gone?!? My mistake! Seth Ashley and Aaron Romo came and had pity on Tim ad helped him with the really exhausting task of moving all of the middle section of our gravel, which was also about 5" deep. What do you do with that much gravel? Well, we now have a lovely gravel covered back alley, and some of that gravel is creating a zen, gravel area by the house in our back yard. That is for another post, but it is actually coming along. All of that area is making room for our Bermuda to take over that area (which it is well on its way to doing).
I hope to have the second post ready to show what we have been planting in place of what we have torn out!
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