Landscaping - Final!

It's finished! Well, almost. We are still going to put a white picket fence around the house, but they can't come for 2 more weeks. After the fence gets put in, then we will plant the Jasmine every few feet on the fence and the purple Clematis on either side of the front gate... When they were finished, I felt like those people from HGTV who get surprised by their dramatically transformed _____. Although I was watching every step of the way, it's still awesome to see it all come together right at the end!

Libby wanted to "help" take pictures

View from the street (zoomed in) of the side yard patio

Patio (plants that are in pots are the Jasmine to be planted on the fence later)
Oh! And that garden stool (LOVE) got it for $40 at a going-out-of-business sale!

Standing on our patio, looking toward the street

View of the patio from our upstairs balcony

Okay, and I do have a little Scrapbook layout to share.... Hopefully, I can do more today! :-)
More coming soon! :-) Happy Saturday!
xoxoxo, Glynda

Landscaping project - Week 2.5

Okay, things have been clipping along and now the exciting stuff is happening! Plants and trees! Here is a shot from the end of week 2.... The patio is nearly completed. This is the view from our master bedroom balcony...

Okay, so hold on to your hats... Here is where we are today:

Laying out plants around the patio. There is our Japanese Maple on the right, pink Azaleas...

The miniature coral roses on the edge will be in front of the Italian Cypress trees. Along the back, Nellis Holly for a privacy screen. The patio is flagstone.

I hope to be able to scrap again soon! I see the light at the end of the tunnel! So many decisions, so much sun! LOL!

xoxoxo,
Glynda

Landscaping project - Week 1

Big one, too. When we bought our house in December, it was distinctly missing some landscaping.

Before: Side yard on the right, empty. No fence, not much of anything...

We decided to do a terraced patio with dry stack wall and flag stone for the patio. There will be trees, of course. We love evergreens, so cypress are in order.

During Project: Week 1

Still much to be done, but they've already installed sprinklers and the wall is almost complete! After next week, no more moving that stinkin' sprinkler around all summer! Wahooo! Free at last!!!
Hope you're having a great summer so far!
xoxoxo, Glynda