Spring Cleaning-outdoors

Even though the inside of our home is a never ending project, with the warm weather we absolutely need to work on the exterior. Jason and I have been outside frequently discussing what to do with our front flower bed and we pretty much came up with a plan. As Sunday was a a beautiful day outside we headed to Lowes to pick up a few supplies to get started.



The early thaw we had last year, followed by the late frost, followed by a summer drought killed several shrubs and trees in our yard. We need to replant and possibly chop down the dead trees, one being a dogwood.

We picked up 20 bags of black mulch at Lowes along with a pair of gardening gloves for moi, a new garden hose nozzle and a fancy schmancy hose holder. We had to make a 2nd trip to Lowes for an additional 15 bags of mulch about an hour later.



Our front beds looked like this. By the time I took these photos we had already ripped out a few dead shrubs.






After new mulch was laid.



Over the next few weekends we will add in some color with new flowers, shrubs, and flowering shrubs. We also plan to extend the flower bed to the side of the house so we need to till the earth in that area this coming weekend(if the weather cooperates). I love the transformation thus far.