Today we started our landscaping project. Not really sure what we were thinking since it’s 95 out. However Thursday night we said we were going to do it so here we are. For starters I had soccer practice this morning so I was already in the hot sun for at least 2 hours, more like 2.5 hours. But when I got home, Leslie had already started cleaning up the old dirt and pulling a few weeds that were still alive.
When I got home we decided to get about 1 more hour in on the flower bed before the heat really hit. So we started working on the border stone first. We figured that was what we needed to do. I’m going to show a couple before pictures and a couple current pictures. We stopped after we got the stone border done, cause it was really way to hot out. Plus we wanted to go to the movies in the heat of the day and pick back up later tonight after the heat goes down.
Here is what we have so far:
Before:
Stone Border:
Stone Border:
So tonight after dinner we drove down to Wally World to get 2 things. And when I say 2 things, that doesn’t mean we left with 2 things! ha ha
We have been wanting to do something with our front flower bed ever since we moved into our house and just have never done anything with it. So as we are walking in to the lawn and garden section (I had to get a new sprinkler) we stopped by the plants. After about 10 minutes of going back and forth, we decided this was the weekend, and let’s just get it done.
For starters we already have 5 4.5 holly bushes and we want to keep those. So we ended up with 7 plants, 5 bags of cedar mulch and 6 bags of top soil. Tomorrow afternoon we are going to Lowe’s and buying 23 rock blocks to border the flower bed and then Saturday getting down and dirty, lol.. I’m sure all my blogging friends want to come to North Texas and help us out since it will be like 98 Saturday.
I plan on taking pics throughout this whole process. Not only is this my first MAJOR outdoor project, we both really don’t know what we are doing, lol…..
Pictures to come….
