The Gardens part 1.

Rob and I have been incredibly busy this past month. In a matter of two weeks we planned and started several landscaping projects in the front and back yards. The second two weeks have been finishing off these projects, starting some smaller ones and hosting Robs sister and husband for 10 days from England. Both of us are feeling the aches and pains all over, at least now we can sit comfortably in our backyard and enjoy the scenery while we sooth our aches and pains!

This is how it looked early spring

An overhead shot of the same

If you're going to diy, do it in style! This has been
a total lifesaver

Rob picked up a 100 square feet of patio pavers, we
both slowly, moved them to the back with
the help of our wheelbarrow

Location of the second patio has been selected and Rob started
removing all the grass

One of several deliveries from these guys at
The Town Bloom. They were amazing and
pricing and delivery was totally within
our budget

 

Gravel all transported to the back and now needs
to be tamped down with the biggest tamper
I've ever lifted!

While Rob was finishing that I started on the front.
Notice the mountain of river rock at the bottom
of the drive, guess where that's going!

Nothing more fun than a power washer

Ready for the gravel then river rock

Somehow that pile at the bottom doesn't look much smaller

I then extended the flower bed and started dispersing
the mulch

Extended and mulched, just needs to be planted now

Here's the other half

Jumping to the backyard again, here is side garden mulched and
river rock edging. Drainage is pretty poor back here so we have made a
drainage trench under the rock

Rob properly installed the lattice that I had put up
last year for all of the clematis plants. It's also
a before pic!!

Rob and his brother in law building me some
cedar raised beds while Tracy kept an eye on the
kids. I was probably hauling rocks, soil etc!

Some sprinkler fun

Here is our second patio completed and we have
been enjoying so much

Cedar boxes finished and staircase done. Rob constructed a support
for the rock so now we have a proper staircase. Notice the river rock!

We had piled up the sod that Rob removed for the patio and weren't to
sure what to do with it. Well, its now a little hill that joins the
side garden with the garden beside the shed and no more
silly area that need to be mowed

Covered in landscape fabric, topped with soil and edged in river rock.
This was on of the many smaller projects I had mentioned earlier