Front Landscaping

So another item on the list of "things that we will fix after we buy the house.... but takes 5 years to actually do" was the front landscaping. It had some terrible plastic trim and evergreen bushes that we fought every year. We had put in a lot of work on the backyard but hadn't done much up front.

We had slowly been re-doing parts of the landscaping like plants and bulbs and tearing out two of the four bushes. but hadn't taken the plunge. After tearing out the second evergreen bush last fall because it was completely dead on the inside, we realized it was time to finally do it.

So, Grandma Householder came down to entertain Brady while we landscaped. We tore out all the bushes and then rototilled the new bed since we wanted to expand the current beds.

We had such good success with the butterfly garden from Bluestone Perennials that we got one to use as the flowering portion of the landscape. We then tried to get bushes that would be interesting year round like red twig dogwood (red color in winter), holly (berries in winter), burning bush (red leaves in fall), hydrangea (big blooms in the summer and fall).

Last thing to do is to get some mulch to finish it off.