more before and afters!
May. 21st, 2009 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickiethe landscapers finished overhauling my backyard today... wow is it an improvement! crazy to think that, after almost 3 years, i'm pretty much done with all the major repairs and redecorating i've been planning!
first, the flowerbed along the back of my house... every summer i'd break my back tearing out piles of weeds, and within a week or so they'd be back with a vengeance. everything i planted back here died, except for the weeds. plus we took out this random patch of paving bricks and planks, so there was this bare patch in front of it that made the area look even worse.
also, the flowerbed rounded the corner of the house, and went down a little hill... the dirt on the hill would always wash away, and every time i tried to plant stuff there it'd lose root and just slide off (except for the weeds, of course).
in this photo you can see where the previous owners tried to fill the washing-away-hole part with pieces of broken tile (great).
after: a mix of geraniums, ornamental grasses, and a fragrant viburnum bush on the corner... edged with boulders along the hill to hold everything in.
the corner with the boulders is my favorite part, it's so much prettier than before!
flowerbed along the back of my yard... most of this bed is against a wall that borders my neighbor's yard. it was a total tangled mess of overgrown weeds, poison ivy, and fallen leaves... with a beautiful forsythia and 2 big hydrangeas being the only things worth saving.
the after: everything cleared out! we left the forsythia and re-planted the hydrangeas (split them into 4 plants), and filled the rest with geraniums, a lilac, knockout roses (already blooming), boxwood bushes and catmint with some ornamental grasses and hostas in the back. right now they're all little green blobs in the mulch, but in the next couple of months they'll expand and start to fill the space.
everything was designed by my brother, he did such a good job!!!
first, the flowerbed along the back of my house... every summer i'd break my back tearing out piles of weeds, and within a week or so they'd be back with a vengeance. everything i planted back here died, except for the weeds. plus we took out this random patch of paving bricks and planks, so there was this bare patch in front of it that made the area look even worse.
also, the flowerbed rounded the corner of the house, and went down a little hill... the dirt on the hill would always wash away, and every time i tried to plant stuff there it'd lose root and just slide off (except for the weeds, of course).
in this photo you can see where the previous owners tried to fill the washing-away-hole part with pieces of broken tile (great).
after: a mix of geraniums, ornamental grasses, and a fragrant viburnum bush on the corner... edged with boulders along the hill to hold everything in.
the corner with the boulders is my favorite part, it's so much prettier than before!
flowerbed along the back of my yard... most of this bed is against a wall that borders my neighbor's yard. it was a total tangled mess of overgrown weeds, poison ivy, and fallen leaves... with a beautiful forsythia and 2 big hydrangeas being the only things worth saving.
the after: everything cleared out! we left the forsythia and re-planted the hydrangeas (split them into 4 plants), and filled the rest with geraniums, a lilac, knockout roses (already blooming), boxwood bushes and catmint with some ornamental grasses and hostas in the back. right now they're all little green blobs in the mulch, but in the next couple of months they'll expand and start to fill the space.
everything was designed by my brother, he did such a good job!!!
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Date: 2009-05-22 04:10 am (UTC)nice!
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Date: 2009-05-22 10:52 am (UTC)Wow!
Date: 2009-05-22 10:57 am (UTC)It'll be so wonderful to watch it grow and bloom. You must feel great!!
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Date: 2009-05-22 04:33 pm (UTC)My tiny patio is also blooming this year, after years of neglect. There will, to my complete astonishment, actually be tomatoes (knock on wood).
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Date: 2009-05-27 06:17 pm (UTC)