Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Jeff and I are both huge brown-thumbs, and after years of weed-landscaping, decided to change our house to a more contemporary feel by using river rocks as large planting beds. We plan to used potted plants to decorate, and maybe add some evergreens here and there. Here's where we are currently at:
This one is leading to the front door. There is a gazing ball stand there that I want to get a mirrored stainless steel ball for. We've added numbers (you might be able to see them on the post) that are very contemporary (quite a change from the painted wood, with a green patina we had there previously). We transplanted our azalea bulbs to plants by the front door, and have started using concrete edgers.
This is under the office window. I personally hate our siding, as it seems so lifeless. If anyone has any suggestions on what to do about that window, please let me know (shutters won't look right, besides, how would you attach them??). If noone has any suggestions, I'll just have to start another thread about it.
This is the other side of the front walkway, with a window to the kitchen. The tree there is a redbud tree that we planted as a seedling when I was about 4 months pregnant with Parker ! The best part about this side is that we just had a huge rainstorm last year, and there was NO FLOODING over here!!
Here's how we plan to finish the rock bed to the driveway ... those are the concret edgers we're using. We'd considered having extruded concrete laid instead, but it was $3.50/foot!! These are about $2 for 18" and $1.50 for 8" curved.
This is my square foot garden plots on the side of the house. They are in their own fence, which we can use to resell as a dog run or still the garden. I had planned to have a really nice compost bin, but right now we're using a wire circle. I need to figure out what I can plant and get to work!
Here is our sycamore tree, that was planted when we bought the house. We had a mulched bed around it, but I didn't like the look of it, and it had no borders. We're going to put the rocks around it as well.
It is taking a while, but I hope the end solution will look better than our weed garden ... now just to figure out what types of plants in pots to put out there, and what kind of pots to get!
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