Another weekend, another back-breaking, sun-baking day of labor in the yard. Yesterday we finished up the front landscaping…for NOW, anyway…by extending the front planting bed down the left side of the house. Once again I suck for not taking a “before” picture, sorry, but imagine tall grass with evil thick roots attempting to choke out [...]
We reluctantly dragged ourselves out of the beautiful air conditioning this afternoon to finish the front right side landscaping…et voila, part deux: You don’t see this much down here in Florida, the side beds…it’s typically house meets grass in a perpendicular gathering of boredom. My mother always had planting beds, even when we lived [...]
One of the best things about documenting this whole gardening thing is the capability to compare before and after images of plantings. Sure, you *know* things have grown, but visual comparisons are fun! The main front bed, right after initial planting in April: The main front bed today, three months later: There’ve been some changes [...]
There are few things as therapeutic as slogging around in the garden. If by “therapeutic” you mean “sweaty,” “back-breaking” and “rly, rly tiring.” We pulled everything out of this area yesterday (except for the crepe myrtle on the left and the robellini palm on the right–but it did get a significant haircut) because that last [...]
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