Summer Yard Projects

We've been busy this summer working to give our yard a bit of a face-lift. Here are some "before" and "after" pictures.

BEFORE: Our shrubs in the front yard grew too big for their space despite our best efforts to keep them trimmed back. So we pulled up the spirea bushes with the pink flowers and transplanted them to a new bed we made behind our garage.

BEFORE: These bushes under the tree are more spirea bushes.  We ripped these out as well and transplanted them behind the garage.

AFTER: This is from a different angle, but it's the same bed as in the very first picture.  We added edging to help prevent grass from creeping into the beds, and planted day-lilies and other perennials.

AFTER: Under the tree, we planted some flowering ground cover and three hosta plants that we split from existing hosta that had gotten too big.

AFTER: This is the side of our house where we've always had hosta, but they had gotten too big, so we split them, and put some in the front yard, and then added the edging.

BEFORE: Here you can see our major grass problem.  We haven't had much luck with annuals under this tree, so we're trying perennials that match the other bed.

AFTER: We added the edging to clean up the border and planted the same perennials that we put in the other bed.

 

BEFORE: This is the wall behind our garage.  The grass has never grown well under the A/C unit and the cantilever, plus it's hard to mow and trim up under there.

So I decided to dig up some grass to create a bed that will be lower maintenance.

AFTER: We transplanted the pink flower spirea plants from the front yard back here where they can grow bigger and not encroach on other shrubs like they were in the front yard. We did put edging along this bed too, but that was after I took this picture.