Flower Garden Completed

We took on a new project this weekend: the flower bed in the front of the house. At some point on Saturday morning we got the bright idea of building a rock retaining wall around the flower bed instead of the simple landscaping trim we originally purchased for the project. Needless to say after moving 50 rocks around plus pulling out all the grass from the area we are both very sore and tired. We are extremely proud of our work though.

Just in case you don't know what the flower bed looked like when we moved in, here's two pictures.

















Nice, huh?















So under the supervision of Lily and Daisy...















And with Tim in his cool shades and do-rag.....




















We tilled up everything, pulled out the grass, weeds, random pieces of metal and non-dirt items, and built a rock wall.















We layed down a WeedFree mat and then 9 bags of pine nugget mulch, and total of 18 cubic feet.


















We are so happy with the results!











Our bigger apple tree is in full bloom. Absolutely beautiful!
















And the herbs we planted in our newly built gutter flower boxes have begun to sprout. If you zoom in to the picture you can see the little green leaves.