More Landscaping

Here is another of our feathered visitors--isn't he pretty?:

So, we've been landscaping the side and, boy oh boy, does it look nice! I wish I had before pictures to show how awful it was before. Just picture a broken fence, rotted out holes, asphalt and rock bits, uneven ground, and litter.

First the boys put in the planter edgers. Mark ordered a truckload of topsoil and another of dark mulch and we've been mulching all over our yard--it looks so nice!

Here they are prepping it all

Here we are getting ready to plant our selections

The kids are VERY helpful!

Check it out--so pretty!

Mark and Uncle Michael filling in around the new plants with mulch

We did this ourselves! Check out that pretty landscaping with the stones and curves. I'm so impressed with ourselves.

It may not look like much, but remember that all the plants are young and small and will soon grow out and up and around. We got all kinds of gorgeous ground cover. It's going to be BEAUTIFUL! We've also got purple wisteria (couldn't find white) growing up the arbor there. And white clematis on the arbor doorways. Click on any of these pictures to seem them bigger.

That flower is called a carpeting rose bush or something like that. It's easy maintenance and it grows and sort of flows/drapes down as it covers ground like a carpet of pink roses.