Project Backyard: Complete!

planter on patio

As I had mentioned in a blog a few weeks back, Jeremy and I wanted to tackle the yard-- put in more attractive and homey plants at the front door and do something, Anything! with the back yard. So, we began our mission a few weeks back... we wondered into Pikes Nursery to browse and get ideas, we didn't want to buy anything yet b/c it was still (and is still) to hot to really plant anything new. BUT we got way to excited about the possibilities and walked out with a car slammed full with plants,soil, and mulch. 

When we got home (at 6pm) we placed the plants where we had envisioned them going during our plant shopping spree and got planting; or should I say Ripping? I say this because we first had to carefully rip the commercial looking plants from the front planting bed before we could start on our masterpiece. After moving the new plants around a few times, arguing a'lil, and moving them around more-- we finally got them planted!

front planting bed

 By this time it was almost dark... but that didn't stop us! we moved around to the backyard and worked till we could no longer see; figuring out where we wanted to put new plants and where we were going to reuse the plants we ripped up from the front. Then, we called it a night! The next day we put everything in the ground- just to put it in the ground. lol! no planting beds yet, just put holes in the grass so the plants would make it through the above average hot weather for the week.

The next weekend we went to home depot "just to pick up somethings"--- hahaha good one right! we walked out with 2 cart fulls of plants, a hammock,and planting tools. Oops again! When we got home-- needless to say-- we had to move all the plants around because we now had even more plants to incorporate into the design. After that Jeremy ripped up a big patch of grass, edged it out, and then we planted the plants,spread mulch and Wa-la! We had a beautiful planting bed!

 I also worked on a planter for on the patio. and...There was a ton more stuff we had to do to get to the end product (3 weekends worth total) of ripping up weeds, mulching, tree spot lights,etc.... but seeing that this entry is getting terribly long.... here are some photos of the finished product.

Planting bed we created around AC unit

planting beds at house and fence line plus- the hammock!