before and after

Our landscape project is finally complete! We still need to add some annual color but we'll do that in a few weeks. Besides that, we're done!

This is something that we have planned to do since we bought the house 5 years ago. Our grass was never green and had some kind of disease that we could never fix. So we replaced the Bermuda with St. Augustine. Our front bed was overgrown and tired looking so we tore it all out and started over. The right side of the house never had anything and I was tired of looking at the a/c unit and meters everytime we drove down the street so we made a bed there. We had a landscape architect from Land Pro Creations draw up plans for us. We tore out the beds, they tore up the grass, laid the sod, and prepped the beds for us to purchase the plants and put in ourselves. It was a lot of work but definitely worth it.

Here are a few of the shots. The pictures don't quite do it justice...

Before...

(We put the brick border on craigslist listed as "free" and had 8 emails in 2 minutes of people who wanted it and would pull it out themselves. Ingenius if you ask me!)

Our little helper. Yes, his collar is "popped!"

after.

We will be adding annual color in three different spots in a few weeks.

The front bed. You can't see how pretty it is in the picture. We have some azalias, dwarf gardenias, hostas, daylillys, salvia, ferns, camellias, double knockout roses, crape myrtle, hollys, abelias, and some fountain grass.

Here's the side of the house. I can't wait for it to grow in and hid the metal.

All done in time for Easter. Have a Happy One!