Check out these "before" and "after" photos and you may understand why we're so grateful to our parents for showing up. Thanks to both families for donating your trucks, tools, and time to scraping back the layers of awfulness in our front yard.
Our parents turned the driveway from Dandelion Central into a place we'd actually be proud to park our cars:
As for the transformation from Curbside Eyesore into Non-Embarrassing Bare Flower Bed... well, that took a little longer than one afternoon... (This one's worth clicking on the picture so you can see how bad it was originally. No, really.)
How did we tackle that shrubbery mess? It took months, but only because we get distracted very easily. It went a little something like this:
Step One: I cut out all of the old plants--including one sad, scraggly fir tree. There was also an initial weeding. (Note: weeds grow back if you don't, you know, put real plants in the bed. Who knew?) As you can imagine, this created quite the yard compost pile! (The picture is just one part of one hedge...)
Step Two: Mike dug out most of the stumps, but we had to hire a stump grinder for the tree.
2 comments:
Oh, for a yard in the northwest! It's beautiful (and your house looks so darling and charming -- can't wait to see it in person some day...).
Looks great! I looove your hydrangeas!
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