Out with the Old

We decided today to tackle the landscape project that we have debated about for the last few weeks.  In the end, the weather is cooperating with us, we have the time to do the work, and we are going to cautiously take on the work with the idea that Rick's hand still is not completely healed.

We want to surround the house with flower gardens, both to enhance the curb appeal of the house and to keep the lawn service from chipping the paint off the bottom of the house with their weed-whacker.

Our main problem is that the edgers we used in the back yard are no longer available, so we have to change gears to get a somewhat uniform look.  Our gardens in the back yard have last year's edgers.  We want the current corner garden and the future corner garden to have the same edgers, so we started today with a little landscape rearranging.

The Areca Palm needs to be enclosed with its own garden wall.

We took the older edgers from the garden under the Florida Room windows.  We will use those edgers in the back corner of the yard around the Areca palm.  That way both corner gardens will have the same edgers.

The pile of slightly lighter-colored edgers await their
place around the Florida Room garden.

In the place of the older edgers, we put in the new edgers in the Florida Room garden.  We will continue with those edgers around the whole house, keeping that look uniform around the complete structure.  That way when we add a second garden in the front, around the palm trees, we (hopefully!) will have the newer edgers still available.

The new edgers will go around the corner of
the house to extend the garden that will surround
the house.  

I still have to pick out what plants to put into each garden, but for now we will work on the two current gardens in the back that already have plants.  We took out all of the edgers around the Florida Room garden and replaced them with the new edgers.  We expanded the garden slightly, and we have made provisions to take that garden around the corner of the house and into the side and front yards.

Thankfully, we do not have any edgers around the major front garden since it is enclosed with our driveway and sidewalk, so we do not have to do any reconstruction with that garden.

We will see if we can finish the Areca Palm garden tomorrow.  That will need two layers of edgers since the ground is very uneven in that corner.  With planning, a couple of good levels, and some patience, we should eventually have a symmetrical look in the back yard.