Some front yard beginnings....

It has been a while since I have posted and my camera is still broken without the budget for a new one in sight...so I will just have to describe as best as possible...

Our beautiful oak wood stairs are complete...which means we can now concentrate on the outside!

We decided to begin by redoing some flowerbeds in the front yard.

We just finished carving out a little sitting area in the middle of our huge flowerbed at the front right of our driveway - it looks like a little room with a flowerbed snaking all around it. I was able to transplant the three Irises, a Lantana, a Rose bush, and two Plumbagos. We put a salvaged wood and metal bench that my husband painted a bronzish-brown color and a bird bath (my mother's day gift) in the little "room". Soon, we will change out the white lamp post that is in the corner of the flowerbed to a bronze post (I already have it picked out at Lowes).

Our other big project in the front yard was digging little trenche-like gaps between the rock lining the flowerbeds and the grass (I haven't decided whether to line with mulch or crushed granite). I feel like it gives a definite ledge between the flowerbed and grass and also will be easier to weed-eat. We also did the trench around each tree - which was a pretty big task since we have 14 oak trees in our front yard.

At the gates to the back yard and at the water hose areas, I also redid the flower beds a bit to make a little parted paths. These paths, as well as the "room" are ready for crushed granite and the flowerbeds are ready for mulch (already picked out and priced at Hill Country Soil). We buy by the truck loads which is way cheaper than by the bags.

Before we get the mulch and granite and if I feel up to it...I would like to create a flowerbed around the mailbox and each Crepe Myrtle (3) that are lined up between the sidewalk and the street. I love the look of white rock and roses and/or a vine climing up the rock (our mailbox is made out of white limestone).

So that is what I have been up to in the last two weeks. My husband is so tired of making trenches and moving rock that he dared suggest we just put grass in the whole back yard - gasp! Actually, it isn't sounding like a bad idea!