Landscaping Photos

I just wanted to post some before/after pics of the landscaping work that we had done about 2 weeks ago. We've been so lucky that the weather has been pretty mild for October (at least that's what everyone keeps telling me). We haven't yet had that "hard freeze" that I've heard could hurt your plants. We were hopeful because of the newly planted yard that we paid for. We wanted it to take. The weather report for the next week still doesn't have evening temps below upper 30s, so that's good. And the daytime temps have been similar to California fall (upper 60s-low 70s). I'm happy...I'm not quite ready for snow yet.

These two pics are our "before" pics. The first one is of the front yard. You can see the large ivy-type plant that surrounds our chokecherry tree. I couldn't understand why someone would intentionally plant a big, crazy, circular ivy, but to each his own. Also notice our "flower bed" that meets up with the front of our house. It was so overgrown that we couldn't tell which plants were supposed to be there and which were weeds.

This pic is of the bed in the back of the house. This was taken from our porch looking out onto the yard. Again, it's pretty overgrown and just looks a little bit wild.


All of these pics are are "after" pictures. The next two show the front of the house. Notice that the chokecherry doesn't have any ivy around it's base. The landscaper removed it and planted sod and laid mulch.




This shows our newly created bed. The overgrowth was removed and a there's now a border of rocks. There's also mulch between the plants. These plants are supposed to be low maintanence. All of the rocks that the landscaper used in the border were found in the back of our backyard!


Another picture of the chokecherry without the ivy jungle underneath.


Another picture of our front bed. I love that wild grass that he planted that looks like crazy hair. WS calls it the Jimi Hendrix plant!



These show the backyard and the new bed that meets up with our patio. Again it's low-maintenance and has a rock border.




We're very excited about our new yard. We've received compliments from our neighbors and visitors. Since we're in a covenant community there are yard rules. In fact, we had to have our landscaping approved by the board. That's surprising! Who approved the previous owners' ivy tree base?! Well, I now feel like our yard fits in with our neighbors' yards. So, that's a good thing.