The Princess

The Princess

Friday, April 25, 2014

Landscaping project

I have been working on a landscaping project for the front of my house.  I would like to give a huge thanks to Gene's Evergreens for giving me a great sketch to do the design.

Here are a few before photos of the shrubs that were cute originally but just morphed into gross blobs in the front yard.  We had no idea how to trim them and so they just looked horrible.  We did try to trim them.  We tried for several years, one year trimming in fall, one year trimming in the spring but it didn't make much difference and they still looked bad in the end.




After the shrubs:





The planned landscaping:






The finished result will be uploaded soon.  I have just finished planting but still need to get mulch.  I think it looks better already.

And let me just say that ripping those shrubs out and digging up the ground to put new shrubs in was probably the hardest thing I have ever done.  We had to rent a rota tiller for the yard because our ground was so hard!  A spade was actually broken during the process of marking off our area.  Did I mention the spade was about 2 days old?  lol  Thankfully we were able to take it back to the store and get a new one without much hassle.  The spade did have a guarantee that it should hold up to normal use.

After: