Yard Crashers

Have you seen that show on HGTV? It’s pretty awesome and if I saw that guy at our local Lowes or Home Depot I would drag him back home with me. Some of the things are a little too crazy for me though so I think I’ll just stick to what we did this week while N was off work. I’ve done a little work in the back yard but it’s been so hot that I just can’t hang out there for long so there was still a ton to get done. I think I’ve mentioned before how overgrown most of the beds were in the yard and we have almost more flower bed than actual yard! Now everything looks great. I spent over an hour on Mon evening cutting limbs down and piling them by the road for the Tues brush pick up and then when N got home from work Tues morning he helped me for a couple more hours and we had a huge pile of big stuff to be picked up.

On Wed we went out and did some exploring and had some fun so no yard work that day. As we were driving home a huge storm rolled in and we had to pull off the road for a while and wait it out because it was raining so hard. When we did start driving again we got into downtown and had to turn around because one road was flooded. We couldn’t believe how much water was standing and it wasn’t worth it to us to try and drive through that mess.

Thurs Nicholas wanted to go out and do some more yard work but it was too hot for me to hang. Lucky for N he has 3 years of hot weather training and the heat doesn’t bother him at all anymore and he did a lot of work that afternoon. He ended up pulling about 10 of the big lawn and garden bags full of weeds, roots, limbs, and grass out of the front yard. Then we worked on the back together because a storm came by just south of us and cooled it down a lot outside. Here’s a look at all the bags in the basement, we didn’t want to leave them out in the rain since they are already so full and heavy adding rain would be very bad!

We put in flowers that would be easy to maintain and didn’t need to be watered a ton. I’m really happy with how it all turned out. Nicholas worked really hard to get it done and now I want to show it off!

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After

Before

After with 3 Lantana in the middle of the bed. On each side of the lantana there’s a bunch of irises planted.

We already had 3 day lilies in the bed so we added 4 more to fill it out. I’m not sure what those tall things are but Carla next door told us that they bloom and are really pretty. I guess we’ll see.

The back yard before

We pulled out the bricks and put in 3 hydrangas and 3 azaleas

We moved all the rosemary from the front bed to the back to fill in that corner.

Before

After

Back left corner before

After. We planted portulaca in the bird bath because most of you know how I feel about birds and as it was that thing was just another breeding ground for the mosquitos that tried their best to suck me dry the whole time we worked in the yard. My arms and legs are ate up and that’s with using bug spray.

The deck now with all the pretty flowers. The bird bath will look like these hanging baskets soon, it will be so pretty!

We don’t plan to do anything in the yard for a while now!!