We tore out everything in the beds and scraped the soil/mulch (yay that was easy) and also were eyeing this random brick wall that was in front of the bed. The bed is flush with the foundation and driveway and the way the bricks were laid, you could only plant large shrubs and no flowers because you wouldn't be able to see them. After we ripped the plants out we were brainstorming about what to do and we noticed the bricks were wobbly. I used my kung fu skills and kicked them...to our surprise, they fell right over. HAPPY TIMES! Whoever built that mess did NOT mortar them to the driveway so out they all came. It was already looking better. Again, no one will take bricks/rocks so while we step up the dumpster hunt, they are in M's old truck bed. Once that was done we headed over to the nursery to make our vision of gorgeousness a reality.
We needed soil and plants so we selected our bounty and off to the register we went where we were punched in the face by the ridiculous price tag of the nursery items. I like to support local businesses but we are on a budget since we have to renovate EVERYTHING on this house. We will probably stick to a big box store next time - especially for soil. When we were planting, there is a flood sprinkler system that is in the beds and I managed to hit a line so we had to replace a piece. It is dead center where we wanted the plants and pretty shallow so it was tough navigating around it.
A few weeks later we noticed that the sun's new angle for winter/fall stops just short of hitting the front of our house with sun...so our plants have never seen the sun. Surprisingly they haven't died but we did get a freeze and they were hurting. Some never really bounced back 100% so I'm trying to watch the weather because they don't have the advantage of warming up with sunlight. Lately it's been warmer and our pansies are flowering so for everything hiding in the shadows...it looks MUCH better!
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