Front Yard- Before & After

This weekend's project was our front yard. We decided that our landscaping up there needed an overhaul. We find ourselves consistently changing the plants out every season. And I'm not talking just changing the "color"...we are always adding/deleting everything. Luckily, my dad is a landscape guru, so he helped us pick out everything! We kept the Magnolia Tree and Pineapple Guava bushes in the smaller flower bed and the Crepe Myrtles and Azaleas in the larger area.

We had a few necessities for the new items we wanted to bring in: plants that could take in a lot of sun, last year round (so we could stop buying plants 4X a year), and were "troopers" (you know, juuust in case we forgot to water them).

Saturday morning we moved around like experts: mowed, edged, weed-eated, rake up all the old mulch, battled with ants, pulled old flowers/monkey grass stuff, bagged it all up, and took off to the (flower) nursery.

 

This is the smaller area with the Magnolia and Pineapple Guava bushes.

Here is the larger area next to the garage with the Crepe Myrtles and the Azaleas behind them.

Here is a view of both all cleared out and ready.

Once we got back from the nursery, we placed all the new potted plants in their designated area to get an idea of how everything was going to look.

And here is what you've been waiting for...the finished product!!

We did move the stones that were around the edges of the flower beds to the tree and are going to get more sometime soon to line all of the landscaping. We also got some new trees for the backyard and I will be doing a before & after backyard post here soon because it needs some updating as well.

Did you do any work in your yard this weekend?