Landscape Design

Back in May, Russ and I had a landscape designer come out to the house and create a landscape design. Besides the basic yard maintenance and grooming of all the weeds and ivy, we have not done much to the house. The people before us just let every grow so we had to do a lot of cutting back and clean up just to begin making the yard look presentable and we still have a lot to do.

The great thing about a landscape design is you can take pieces of it at a time to implement. A couple of weeks ago, Dad and I had a Father-Daughter Day and went looking at plants for the first phase of our landscape design and concrete pavers for our future patio. After looking at numerous places we finally found a great place, Northside Nursery. They took great care of their plants and the prices were just right!

We bought plants to go underneath the new bay window and couple to go along the front of the house. I was not thinking that I would not have time to plant them since I would be out of town for the next couple of weeks so I had to make sure either Russ or I would water then daily.

We finally got a chance to landscape the front of the house, unfortunately it was during the hottest weekend in Atlanta so far. Dad and I were outside working from 9:30 to 2:00 in over 100 degree weather. Needless to say, we put the remaining landscaping and patio work on hold until September or when it cools down.

I cannot believe the difference it has already made to the house!!! I cannot wait to work on another phase.

Below are pictures of the before and after...