Me and Jesse finally re-landscaped the front yard. We bought (stole) this house as a forclosure 2 years ago and the yard was in bad shape. The bushes were over 20 feet tall and completly covered up the sidewalk. So we choped them down with a chainsaw so we could make it to the front door. We also tore off the stucco and added hardi-plank.
While we were paying off our student loans we couldn't spare the money. When we became debt free this spring the weather was so hot in early may, that we didn't want to loose our new exspensive bushes to Georgia's Heat.
So Fall rolled around and we were so exited. Our yard has looked horendous for two years! So we rented a 2-man power auger, planned our landscape, bought our bushes and wallah! We were going for a cottage-like look- wear everything is messy and whimsical. Everything we bought was an evergreen or a perrinial. we wanted lots of messy color and didn't want to depend on flowers.
We choose Loropetalum as our backdrop plant against the (green) house because it is deep purple. Then we interspesed Nandina (red) Artemesia (silver) and put Golden-mop Cypress (yellow) on the edges (with an ornamental grass in various locations). Then we mixed in lots of messy perinials of all colors - Russian Sage, Guaru, Coreopsis, Veronica ect. We chose variagated Jasmines for our windowboxes and Swamp Jasmine for our trellis. It will take about 2 years for it to start looking like a 'cottage garden'. But i am very happy with how it all turned out!
Before After
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