Sunday, July 29, 2012

Yard Work

I love to do yard work that makes a difference. In this yard, that means taking plants out. I pretty much hate mugho pine bushes and have asked TB to dig up everyone I've ever run into. This morning, I really had it in for this ugly overgrown wonder so he was nice enough to rip it out by its roots. This picture is before the bush bit the dust, but after I covered some ugly landscaping plastic with "pine mulch" I raked up from the huge trees in the front yard.

Looks better right? I planted a peony just behind the big green sprinkler box which hopefully will cover it up in a couple of years, but it looks more like a yard and less like a mistake now.

Near the front door, there were three old and huge laurel bushes that were full of snails and were hiding a pretty courtyard.  





TB graciously agreed to take out the laurels and I planted tall grass. We still need a strip of sod to fill in the grass here and TB wants some lupine and day lillies, but I think it already looks a million times better.

1 comment:

Jeanne said...

Good work on the yard. I always cringe when you pull out plants but you are always right!