Plans

I'm late.  Apologies.  I'm also traveling.  Oh well.

Last year I got bookcases.  This Fall I am finally landscaping the yard.  My intention had been to start in the Spring, but well, Spring didn't work out the way I planned.  Lying in bed, looking out my bedroom window at the bare hill and exposed clay however, helped me to stop equivocating about what to do and move forward.

Before: 

The view from my bedroom window.  So appealing don't you agree?

The view from the windows in the sun room.  Also inpsiring.  Begs one to sit curl up and stare out the window, doesn't it?

The view from the street, no so bad really, but not great.  Lots of bare patches.  The planting beds are really jut piles of clay with mulch on top.  The plants do not thrive.  I have finally accepted the fact that my back is not going to support digging through clay.

Work begins this week, mostly weed-killing, marking, and preperation for the sprinkler system.

These are the plans, the pictures will enlarge if you click on them, although you still may not be able to fully decipher the writing.

 Front yard:  same layout of beds, expanded slightly and rearranged.  The two River Birches will be removed and replaced with other trees.

A long bed will run along the length of the side of the house.  The bare areas on this plan will probably eventually contain a mixture of daffodils and daylillies along with other plants.

The back of the house (first photo of the bare hill).  This promises to be much more interesting.   It should also discourage my neighbor from driving across my yard in his truck to deliver mulch to his own gardens.