Yard work

Okay, this post is for only our biggest fans (i.e. it's boring). The previous owners of our home were SUPER into gardening. To them, this meant devoting as much space as possible to as many plant varieties as possible. To us, this means they had way more time on their hands than we do and we really needed to simplify things. I'm not so good at before and after pics, so some descriptions may have to suffice. The two pictures below show our new fire pit area, next to the quoit court Doug put in last year. The area always had the rock wall, but was filled with some plants and a s*** ton of rocks. So Doug and I (mostly Doug) dug up the plants, moved the rocks, and covered it with mulch. And the third pic is of Gianna's first "ringer" at quoits! 

Now to the front. This is a before picture from right in front of our house. It's hard to tell but this flower bed was about 10 feet deep and filled with roughly 47,000 types of plants. So we had it dug up and replaced it with a 5 foot bed with 5 bushes and one small tree. I like to be able to count the number of plants on my hands and to be able to tell what are weeds and what are plants. It's nice. 

 It's hard to tell, but that HUGE dirt pile near the truck, extending from one big tree to the other, was a big berm, again with 47,000 plants. So we dug that up too and had them plant grass. This literally doubled the size of our front yard and now we don't have to weed and prune, just mow. Easy peasy. 

So here's the finished product. Small flower beds with simple plants and lots more grass. We are SO pleased!