Finally...The Yard Is Coming Together!

So...you have seen the pictures of the house before we moved in. The yard was totally dead and had thousands of weeds! We have been spending so much time turning dirt, having a bobcat tear out the dead grass and weeds and using a fortunes worth of round up! Most of the weeds that were in the front had roots that went 6 feet deep! Crazy! My trigger finger really got tired from the round up. So...here is a picture of the "almost" finished front yard.

I really don't know much about what to plant where so we hired the lady who desined our last yard again. Rachel Garvis from Glover Nursary is great! Of course we bought all the plants very small, but in the next couple of years it will look amazing. We still have about 11 plants and a few trees to plant. I have had a few people ask for a peak of what we have already done...Here it is! Here are a couple angled views.

Here is the view of the other side.

We still have a Japanese Maple to plant in the back corner by the front door.

It is coming along great and we are so excited to not be looking at dirt all the time. The back yard is going to have to wait until next spring. We will have to remove a bunch of dirt- get rid of the terraced level in the middle of the yard which makes it hard to run around and play. All in good time.

Well, you asked for it and there it is!