Green Thumb

Before we moved here my experience with gardening was very minimal.  I would buy some annuals that looked ok together and plant them in some hanging baskets.  Now that the sun is out all the time I wanted to spend a lot of time outside enjoying the best part of the house.  The front yard was a mess, branches on the trees had never been pruned, random bricks were lying around the outside of the house, I could go on and on.  So I asked a friend to come by who happens to work in landscape design to give me some advice on what to do.  I spent about 3 weeks trimming trees, cleaning up the back, buying perennials and annuals, digging, planting, mulching, and laying down edging stones.  There was a lot of time spent watching youtube videos on how to garden!   It was a lot of work but I've really enjoyed every minute spent outside making it look ten times better.   It's really been a lot of fun and I hope to keep working on the yard year after year.  Here are some before and after pictures of the front garden bed.

Before

After! 

The only thing between the grass and the garden were some rocks

I started by cutting in an edge to define the garden

I added edging stone, new mulch, and about ten new plants

I bought that terra cotta pot to replace a plastic green one

My patriotic arrangement

Owen pointing out the flowers

A lot of the plants and shrubs I bought will grow tall enough to eventually cover the lattice